Interesting film about Detroit.

[Globalti]

My brother in Michigan has linked me this video, which will interest anybody who's into urbex or regeneration of failed cities. There's quite a bit on Motown music there as well.

http://www.vice.com/uneven-terrain/detroit-lives-full-length

(Great place to go cycling too!)

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Watched 5 mins and looks very interesting , will watch it later
Looks exciting times for Detroit after all the bad press it gets

 

[Norm]

Love it, thanks for sharing!

 

[Globalti]

The same thing is happening in Detroit, on a much bigger scale, as Colinj has described in Hebden Bridge - industrial town goes down the pan, property values bottom out, artists and hippies move in, town is reinvented.

 

[ColinJ]

The same thing is happening in Detroit, on a much bigger scale, as Colinj has described in Hebden Bridge - industrial town goes down the pan, property values bottom out, artists and hippies move in, town is reinvented.

Sounds interesting - I'll take a look this evening!

 

[dellzeqq]

I've not watched all of it, but this thread deserves a bump. It's fascinating.

 

[EltonFrog]

Ah! Detroit. Where mother is only half a word.

 

[swee'pea99]

I'll have a look at that tonight - thanks. I can never hear that name without being taken back 30 years to Ted NugentLive round a friend's house...

"“Now ya’ see this here guitar right here, now do you see it? This guitar was born in the Motor City – Detroit – murder capital. Such a healthy place for all the girls and boys it’s the murder capital of the world, a-ha… This guitar right here is guaranteed to blow the balls off a charging rhino at sixty paces..."