Abandoned Detroit

[Dexter St. Clair]

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=8752

with thanks to Vinyl Vulture for the reference

[glasgowken]

WOW I'd love to dig through that police station, although I may have been tempted to take a few soveniers.

[Field Marshall Shug]

And I thought we were bad in the UK; hospital records found blowing in the street etc. Go to Detroit and find an abandoned/ overlooked police station. A wee lick of paint and you could be quelling (or starting) riots.

[gap74]

A whole train station just lying there, stunning:

http://www.seedetroit.com/pictures/mcsweb/

More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Central_Station

[Lucky Poet]

As a wee Brucie Bonus update, here are two good links:
http://www.detroityes.com/home.htm
http://www.forgottendetroit.com/
Really astonishing stuff. I'd post these in the 'funny, cool or interesting stuff' thread, but y'know.

[Chris H]

bumping an old thread but after a search never found anything else relevant on here so will add it here,

I found this today

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/20 ... roit/2672/

unbelievable its baffling to me how these things can not only be just abandoned but how no one else has done anything.

here for example all the plumbing etc would have been ripped out and weighed in, there's books still on shelves there, mugshots etc on the floor in the police station.

Just crazy stuff.

[frankquinn24]

isn't this post a bit remote from Glasgow?

[pingu]

isn't this post a bit remote from Glasgow?

its a random distraction

[HollowHorn]

It's also astonishingly wonderful.

[dazza]

here for example all the plumbing etc would have been ripped out and weighed in, there's books still on shelves there, mugshots etc on the floor in the police station.

Just crazy stuff.

Most of the more "evocative" images were taken a good few years ago; and those locations have since changed dramatically. Many of the sites featured in the book have been demolished, refurbished, or are in the process of being preserved (well... Michigan Central Station at least).
However, the majority of them have suffered badly from the inevitable theft of valuable metals, etc. I've seen many images taken in those buildings from the early 00's to the present day, and although they once had a "just up and left" quality even just a few years ago, they are all practically fecked now.

[Targer]

I don't think these posts on Detroit are remote from Glasgow as many comparisons can be made. Glasgow lost its shipbuilding and allied industry, its heavy industry, half its population, its shipping industry (it being replaced elsewhere by containers), it has unemployment, considerable areas of the city have been demolished, lots of brown fields one could go on and on. There are a number of larger cities like Detroit (Cleveland and others) in the "rust belt" that have lost their industry and population and have went into decline. Some have came back but not without major effort and time. Glasgow could learn from how these cities handled their problems.

[G3 Growers]

A film by G3 Growers members Jackie and Don.

Glasgow and Detroit - post industrial cities looking for new directions. Urban gardeners from Glasgow went on a visit to see Detroit's city farms.

http://vimeo.com/33596544