Awesome imagery here...when I first read the title though it made me think this was going to be about Detroit again. The levels of destruction and abandonment there even today have to be seen to be believed.
eli is correct that is exactly the photo essay that came to mind about Detroit. Having personally driven thru Detroit and witnessing large Swathes of the area totally abandoned freaked me out completely
Once again, in action, the unnamed law that decrees that any article about anything happening in any country in the world inevitably turns into a thread about much worse things are in the US.
The interesting part about Detroit, amongst others, is that Detroit's "ruins" are due to an exodus of industry and followed by population. That's to say, it's not exactly due to gov't mismanagement or some kind of systemic failure. The failure is more individual --for example, company goes bankrupt --leaves building. But no one comes in to rent the building out. In other cases, it's due to buildings reaching their useful life --and not getting torn down properly (in this case, too costly for the gov't since no one is willing to build, as they would in other cities). All this is aggravated by the flight form the city to the suburbs and elsewhere. To put it succinctly, this is more organic, than artificial.
So, for example, you could be in a nice building and look across the street and look at a dilapidated building in disrepair. It's a weird juxtaposition but one shaped by economics and demographics.
where does he say that modern-day detroit is worse than 1945 warsaw? i didn't see anything to suggest that that s/he thought detroit was worse warsaw. is it possible that you are reading to far into the comment?
