17 What Happened to Detroit?
DetroitUrbex
About the author
The photo essay below comes from a group named “DetroitUrbex.” The term “Urbex” stands for “urban explorers.” This group infiltrates abandoned buildings and photographs them, documenting the decay and often providing before-and-after photos from its research into historical archives. The essay below tells the brief story of Detroit’s boom and bust cycle that caused two-thirds of the population to leave and created a modern landscape littered with abandoned buildings. The story serves as a warning for other cities. Anchorage experienced a similar population boom, but now its population is also shrinking. What other similarities with Detroit do you see in Anchorage?
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If you are interested in more images and information about Detroit, check out DetroitUrbex’s much longer photo essay, which provides much greater detail.
