the perfectly good detroityes.com Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
perfectly good meaning that the website is non-offensive, it'd be nice if
there wasn't a reason for this website to exist in the first place...
MEK
I'm far from a definitive source on the matter, but as for your question of
whether new development/investment in Detroit is an actual
investment in and by the community as a whole I'd have to say there are a
lot of factors to consider.
Detroit's number one problem is that the city was built
One comment about whether the city of Detroit is devoting enough of its
new resources to the neighborhoods and away from the redevelopment core:
No.
Compuware got its new site for $1, but can responsible groups wanting to
renovate abandoned housing get title from the city to move forward and
do
In a message dated 02/07/00 14:11:23 GMT Daylight Time,
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I know the focus of this list is primarily Detroit
but i just wanted to remind y'all that these
concerns are not limited to the D.
Detroit is definately not the only city that is apparently falling to ruin
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 313@hyperreal.org
Subject:Re: [313] Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
I know the focus of this list is primarily Detroit
but i just wanted to remind y'all that these
concerns
I don't think the American public has any sense of what happened
in these buildings over the last four decades. We turned away.
And we turned away from the everyday neighborhoods of Detroit where
the people who worked there lived, and only woke up when the headlines
started screeching about
: RE: [313] Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
I don't think the American public has any sense of what happened
in these buildings over the last four decades. We turned away.
And we turned away from the everyday neighborhoods of Detroit where
the people who worked there lived, and only woke up
Lester, you're ready more into what I wrote than I actually said.
To confront these massive industrial and commercial buildings that
within our lifetimes were the engines of American capitalism is to
confront one visible aspect of what happened to *Detroit* as a
community/culture/economy. But
On 30 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://bhere.com/ruins/industry/indpacpan.htm
Detroit's decline and fall is a process still going on, still mostly
undocumented, and still essential to understanding the origin and
development of electronic music in Detroit.
I'm feeling youbut I
On Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:06 PM, Lester Kenyatta Spence
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 30 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://bhere.com/ruins/industry/indpacpan.htm
Detroit's decline and fall is a process still going on, still mostly
undocumented, and still essential to
check
http://bhere.com/ruins/ravisode/hands.htm
The hands of the DJ as he places a new LP on one of his three turntables.
Behind the upper hand are the controls of his drum machine.
hmm :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://bhere.com/ruins/industry/indpacpan.htm
Detroit's decline and fall is a process still going on, still
mostly
undocumented, and still essential to understanding the origin and
development of electronic music in Detroit.
Lester Kenyatta Spence wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Phonopsia wrote:
On Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:06 PM, Lester Kenyatta Spence
. and by creating a work of art that is based on the
implicit premise that detroit is emptyof people, and of dynamic
(rather than static) beauty, i think the creator of RUINS is
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Kent williams wrote:
To say that there are ruins in Detroit is no different than saying
that there are ruins in Paris and Rome. They testify about an age
that no longer exists. It isn't to imply that the place is dead, just
that there is an architectural memory of things
To say that there are ruins in Detroit is no different than saying
that there are ruins in Paris and Rome. They testify about an age
that no longer exists. It isn't to imply that the place is dead, just
that there is an architectural memory of things that no longer exist.
More impressive to me
It isn't to imply that the place is dead, just that there is an
architectural memory of things that no longer exist.
Like all those poor elm trees felled by Dutch elm disease.
Sadly, Detroit as the City of Trees exists no more. Unlike
some of the other problems something can be done about
this
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Lester Kenyatta Spence wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Kent williams wrote:
To say that there are ruins in Detroit is no different than saying
that there are ruins in Paris and Rome. They testify about an age
that no longer exists. It isn't to imply that the place is
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