GooBing Detroit. A garage in northeast Detroit deteriorates.
Lady waving to the street view car in the first image, c. 2009. Nearby the Heidelberg Project, and in the style, though not sure if a Tyree or not. Why Don’t We Own This? Shows the property taxes haven’t been paid in a few years (makes sense…) and $2k+ is owed. The property is subject to foreclosure, but not in the auction this year. This block is incredible. The New York Times visited this block during the Motor City Mapping survey: "Blight, as Karl Baker, one Detroit resident, has seen, tends to spread.
Most of the houses nearby are standing but abandoned, and visitors have clearly passed through — empty liquor bottles lie along debris-covered floors near broken windows and doors, every memory of a metal appliance or gutter seems to be gone from some of the homes, and two old couches that were dumped along a lawn are now blanketed by a thick layer of snow. That’s a lotta washing machines… Decline of Detroit's neighborhoods by Google Street View blogger. By Alex Greig Published: 13:47 GMT, 8 June 2014 | Updated: 17:07 GMT, 8 June 2014 A Detroit blogger has compiled a compelling series of images from Google Street View to show the devastating decline of the city's residential neighborhoods since the 2008/09 financial crisis.
Alex Alsup, who spends his days examining property data at LOVELAND Technologies, began his blog GooBing Detroit to document how dramatic the deterioration in those few short years has been. 'I feel like many people think Detroit has been in rough shape for decades - that the deterioration isn't anything new,' he says. 'It's just not the case. Alsup says that the financial crisis came at a time when home values had already been steadily declining for years, yet property taxes remained extremely high. As city services and infrastructure declined, people began to leave, unable to sell a property worth only $20,000 for which the annual taxes were about $3,000. Detroit faces another cash-flow crisis. Detroit companies offer employees incentives to live in city centre.
By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 00:45 GMT, 26 July 2011 Its chronic decline has been well documented but now some companies in Detroit are fighting back.
Employees of five downtown-based companies are being given financial incentives to live close to where they work. DTE Energy’s Paul Hillegonds says the trend is starting to take off. Vacant Detroit turning dumping ground for the dead as police find an average of one body a month within city. By Associated Press Reporter Published: 04:30 GMT, 3 August 2012 | Updated: 14:55 GMT, 3 August 2012 From the street, the two decomposing bodies were nearly invisible, concealed in an overgrown lot alongside worn-out car tires and a mouldy sofa.
The teenagers had been shot, stripped to their underwear and left on a deserted block. They were just the latest victims of foul play whose remains went undiscovered for days after being hidden deep inside Detroit's vast urban wilderness — a crumbling wasteland rarely visited by outsiders and infrequently patrolled by police. Abandoned and neglected parts of the city are quickly becoming dumping grounds for the dead — at least a dozen bodies in the space of 12 months. Well hidden: Detroit police recover two bodies on the city's east side on July 27 in an area known for illegal dumping with trees and high grass The bodies have been purposely hidden or discarded in alleys, fields, vacant houses, abandoned garages and even a canal.
Detroit's amazing transformation captured on camera after it loses ONE MILLION residents in 60 years. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 01:28 GMT, 2 October 2012 | Updated: 20:28 GMT, 3 October 2012 When it comes to embattled cities, Detroit has suffered more than most - with a dramatically declining population, crumbling industries and homes and buildings abandoned.
The Michigan city has lost 60 per cent of its population since the 1950s - around one million residents - when the city was America's fourth largest and the thriving hub of car industry and Motown music. The striking images which document the changes in Detroit were taken by photographers Camilo José Vergara and Andrew Moore over a period of 25 years. Scroll down for video. Half of Detroit's streetlights could be switched off to save money. From Motown to Ghost town: How the once mighty Detroit is heading down a long, slow road to ruin. By Peter Hitchens In Detroit Updated: 21:01 GMT, 9 July 2011 This was once the capital city of capitalism, the great roaring furnace at the very centre of America’s rise to world power and greatness.
Stalin wanted to copy it on the banks of the Volga, but found he couldn’t replicate its spirit – or its cars. Aldous Huxley’s great prophetic novel Brave New World was written on the assumption that the ideas of its founder, Henry Ford, especially that ‘history is bunk’, would one day take over the planet. He may yet turn out to be right. Certainly, Ford’s desire for a world of vast mass-production factories in which the workers were paid enough to keep the economy going by buying their own products seems to be coming true.
Motor City's perishing parishes: Haunting pictures of abandoned Detroit churches paint desperate picture of life in America. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 02:47 GMT, 31 December 2011 St.
Who you gonna call? Detroit police stations to close their doors to the public for 16 hours a day. By Ellen Connolly Updated: 06:48 GMT, 5 January 2012 Detroit, which has one of the highest crime rates of large American cities, will close the doors of its police stations to the public from 4pm each day, reopening 16 hours later at 8am.
From Monday, many residents wanting to report crimes will not be able to speak face-to-face with an officer as the cash-strapped city struggles to slash costs. Post-Apocalyptic Detroit. Has some amazing architecture. But what makes the city especially striking is its post-apocalyptic vibe. Large area of Detroit appear as if humanity mostly died off several years ago.
The city has buildings with a grandeur like those designed under Ceaucescu in Romania, then abandoned like Pripyat, the Ukrainian town near the Chernobyl power station. Detroit's population hit a peak of about 1,850,000 in 1950, but now it has dropped to less than 714,000 in 2010. Detroit was referred to as for its architecture through its "Gilded Age" of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Detroit's automobile industry drove its economy, and many skyscrapers were built through the late 1920s. The Great Depression hit, then World War II, and Detroit became known as as large numbers of military vehicles and B-24 bombers were rapidly produced. Preservationdetroit.org.