This is worth looking at too: http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2009/07/feral-houses.html
2009/8/2 kent williams <[email protected]>: > This was tagged on Boing Boing, and I thought it was pretty lovely. > > http://www.mitchcope.com/projects/detroit-book-of-love/ > > It brings up something I find interesting: Detroit is obviously a > city with unprecedented problems, that these photos illustrate > eloquently. But they also reiinforce a narrative of Detroit as a > post-prosperity wasteland. It feels like there's a conceptual Detroit > being created, a sort of "Life After Man" wasteland with crack heads > and copper scavengers scuttling among the ruins. This is by no means > the whole story -- real people live in Detroit, and despite the > challenges they face, many manage to live productive, even happy > lives. They also have an active and evolving civic and artistic > culture. > > How could these two stories of Detroit be synthesized? >
