A great series about the decay of Detroit and its emerging status as City/Not.
Highly recommended from the perspective of the Return of Nature, Urban Decay and Modern Ruins. Ironically, some of the images of earth overtaking abandoned urban grids look like many intentionally "green" architectural projects.
Full series so far:
http://places.designobserver.com/
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re: Eerily beautiful in a way.
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I agree. I've always been interested the look and feel of Urban Ruins.
After the Reunification of Germany in 1989, much of East Berlin became abandoned in favor of West Berlin (or other parts of Germany), and a lot of the derelict spaces were taken up by artists and architects for a series of (still continuing) interventions and renovations. There's a similar situation going on in Detroit right now, which to me is very appealing.
Eerily beautiful in a way.
Eerily beautiful in a way. This is the first instance that I know of a ghost metropolis, a city of millions going empty. Perhaps not since Ancient Rome has a city shrunk this much.