The Post-Post-Apocalyptic Detroit......Incredible images of abandoned places – in pictures theguardian.com

A view of Detroit from G.M.'s Renaissance Center.CreditAndrew Moore for The New York Times

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The Post-Post-Apocalyptic Detroit

By BEN AUSTEN

Black and white, young and old, billionaires and shop owners — a growing chorus of optimists in Detroit is saying that the time is right to invest.

The Guardian

'As the adjectives most often used to describe them – nostalgic, romantic, haunting – suggest, there is something paradoxically beautiful, not to say seductive, about decaying buildings, particularly ones that were once baroquely magnificent'

Incredible images of abandoned places – in pictures

theguardian.com

From decaying Detroit to an eerily empty island in Japan, we seem fascinated by abandoned and derelict sites