Detroit’s population has fallen steadily since the heyday of the auto industry in the 1950s, when it peaked around two million, to just a little over 700,000 in 2010. Disappearing jobs and burgeoning mortgage has driven even stable, middle-class families to the suburbs leaving thousands and thousands of homes and properties behind. According the Census Bureau, the number of vacant housing units doubled in the past decade to nearly 80,000, more than one-fifth of the city’s housing stock. Even though the city has been demolishing about 1,000 broken-down houses a year, they can’t keep up with the rate at which families are abandoning them.
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In memoriam:
Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1935-2012
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david bowie at 17 speaking for the society for the prevention of cruelty to long-haired men (the bbc)
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“Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.”
Sondersdorf - 3 écolières avec leur cartable
Alsace,1945
Also : http://regardintemporel.tumblr.com/post/4081136473/robert-doisneau-les-ecolieres-alscace-1945
http://wonderfulambiguity.tumblr.com/post/13058903940/robert-doisneau-les-ecolieres-alscae-1945
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Seymour Shapiro 1975, A Turned Cloud, acrylic on canvas
found at albrightknox.org, posted by ymutate