Things may be bad for the rest of the country, but they’re really bad in Detroit. The once flourishing city that gave America generations of gas guzzlers and Motown is a shell of its former self. To highlight the “current freeze in the housing market” and Detroit “leading the nation in foreclosures,” a photographer and an architect collaborated on “Ice House.” Read more »
Because most of the city’s residents and local government have no money and are unable to afford the $695 cost of individual cremation, frozen corpses, 67 of them, are piling up inside the Wayne County morgue. Even the dead in the dying city of Detroit can’t seem to catch a break. |CNN|
Looking for something to do this long weekend? Why not round up a couple of friends, head to a decaying urban metropolis and film yourselves leaping from its most historic building, just like these guys did at the GE building in Detroit. Read more »
After accumulating 45 suspensions on the drivers license she’s never had, a Detroit woman was finally arrested by Michigan police. Renee Lashon Beavers, another criminal who should find a new hobby, was jailed after being pulled over driving a stolen car with a 24-ounce can of beer in hand. |Chicago Tribune|
The people of Detroit have finally been given a glimmer of hope, at least the poor ones relegated to riding the city’s massive network of buses, with the opening of the Rosa Parks Transit Center. More like an airport terminal, the sprawling 25,000-square-foot space provides low income commuters a new, airy, state-of-the-art facility to help keep their minds off just how economically fucked they really are.
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