is this are future nothing but ruins

these ruins are right in detroit its so sad to see these works of art left in this state as if no one lives there any longer it makes me wonder if this is our future

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1vuYm...011/02/07/captured-the-ruins-of-detroit/2672/

 

There's a chance it will be revitalized.

http://www.experiencedetroit.com/revitalization.htm

Only time will tell if this proves to be successful, but I think most cities have a natural ebb and flow. While nowhere on par with the scale of Detroit, my city was in decay in the early 1980s. It was considered the textile capital of the world in the early 1900s and experienced a slow decay as textiles became a dinosaur industry and the economy faltered. Thats very similiar to whats happening in Detroit, actually. In the 1980s a committee was formed to revitalize my town, and now its a booming little city with a beautiful downtown area, a great economy, a flourishing arts district.

there is hope for detroit, I predict.

 

when they transform it will be just like shitsburgh., Shoving Upmc down your throat manipulating medicine and creating general panic disorders to sell phams...
do you really want that?. It would be better off woods...

 

isnt it crazy how it looks like one day everone just vanished

 

no one thing is everyone's or every places future. nor is time going to start standing still at some future point. the very excess of human population may at some point burst the bubble of its continuous expansion, as several other factors at some point might. if we were smart, we'd do something logical to lower the firtility to mortality ratio. that and turning more to alternatives to using combustion to power transportation and generate energy, and we HAVE the technologies to do so, would avoid a world of future hurt. even if it isn't avoided it to shall pass. but really its so completely unneeded, and it IS up to us. no 'the' future doesn't have to be any one particular way, other then that the results of policies and priorities all of us togather participate in creating the incenteves for enveriably determine what is reaped.

 

now i want to go to detroit.

these were some of the best pictures i've seen in a while that didn't involve nudity.

 

I've always had a desire to go to Detroit. Something about the loneliness and abandonment of the city attracts me.

 

Every time I think of Detroit, I think of loneliness and abandonment...I'd love to visit there, too.

But there are a lot of cities around the world like that...there's an island in Japan I believe that was abandoned after WWII...they won't even let people through there. I went through a town in Maine last year that didn't have one single business open...every business in the town closed down.

 

any clue what town that was. anything involving the economic problems around hear I try to take an interest in

 

You talk like abandoned buildings are a bad thing. They very well happen to be one of my favorite things.

 

I lived in an abandoned building in the mid 80's for about 2 months

 

OP......I think all of those places look amazing exactly how they are.

 

I'm not sure of where exactly but it was near (or maybe in) Mexico, Maine

 

but was it still abandoned while you were living in it?