Tours of the Ruins of Detroit

[purejuice]

As everyone knows, all I care about is HGTV any more, and so about the only thing I really read in today's massive NYT is the design supplement, which has in it a review of two books of photographs about the ruins of Detroit. What The City is going to look like after the nerve gas war is the only thing I care about more than HGTV, and I am jonesing for both books, which together cost more than $100.

Next year in Jerusalem, since I just dropped $70 on an art book I've been lusting for for like five years.

All of which led me to this fabulous, incredible website.

http://detroityes.com/home.htm

And don't forget Tyree Guyton and his dot project.

http://www.heidelberg.org/

I'm still waiting for atthesametime to purchase, to read, and to critique Rem Koolhaas on Lagos. For reals.

Comments

[auntysocial.livejournal.com]

I haven't visited those websites in a long time. It's great to see they are still up and running. The book looks cool, too.

[dcart.livejournal.com]

The detroityes site used to be better. I first found that site in 2002 or 2003. I went back a couple of years ago and looked through it again. Though there was some new content, there was also a lot of stuff from before that had been pulled down. I'm not sure why that was.

[orso-amoroso.livejournal.com]

a friend very concerned with the detroit environs recommends this as a good article. I've not read it yet so caveat lector.

http://www.urbanophile.com/2010/04/11/the-other-side-of-detroit/