[Yaelle]

There is a photographer on Instagram who gets into the roughest parts of Detroit and takes photos. The city is becoming gritty “country.”. It’s ugly and somehow beautiful the way nature is taking back the city men abandoned. Above all, it’s shocking tht this is part of America.

If you are on Instagram, his name is TonyDetroit. Worth a look. His photos are amazing. He says “there are only 6000 people in downtown Detroit and I am one of them.”

[AngelesCrestHighway]

I will...every American should also

[philled]

kind of like the photos of Chernobyl.

[pierrem15]

I read a long article from an archaeology journal where archaeologists studied Detroit to understand changes in land use as a city is abandoned.

For example, examining streets buried by grass and detritus and mapping how residents create new streets by driving through lots instead of following the old grid pattern, as well spoliation (removing & reusing architectural features from old buildings) and fortification of existing buildings.

The point of the article was that Detroit provided good examples of the process that transformed abandoned cities at the end of the Roman Empire.