Pictures of before (if available) and after ... of noted buildings, i.e. ; hotels, large office buildings, mansions and etc.
I grew up in Boston, so I have a taste of older archetecture and it was easy to imagine myself in those Detroit heydays.
I now live in the Pittsburgh area, and though I was not conditioned to the steel industry, I have worked in older factory types ... and to see the decay of steel mills along the river ... the broken and crumbling parking lots designed to hold .. I don't know .. a thousand or so ?, cars ....
America has been under attack by 'modernity' ever since the glass and steel archetects came of age.
I don't know ... maybe I'm just old.
Google “the fabulous ruins of Detroit” to revisit that site. It will make you cry all over again.