The Death and Decay of Detroit, As Seen From The Streets

Zero Hedge ^ | June 9, 2014 | Tyler Durden

[House Atreides]

Detroit, has been bankrupt for nearly a year. But out of mind doesn't mean out of sight, especially now that Google has launched its street view Time Machine, which provides for 7 years worth of street images, showing the time shift of the tumultuous period period starting in 2007. One blogger who decided to take this time lapse data and apply it to the city of Detroit is GooBing Detroit who, as the following time-lapse photos demonstrate, has captured Detoit's unprecedented slow-motion collapse into death and decay in what is the closest we have to "real time."

Perhaps what is most stunning about the following series of photos is not the ultimate fate of the bankrupt city, but how quickly a once vibrant metropolis has succumbed to blight and sheer desperation.

Hopefully not coming to a street near you.

[kearnyirish2]

We have Chinese in our area (NYC metro); they are an insulated community who really keep to themselves. I guess they are a positive overall just by paying property taxes on homes/businesses; I don’t know how much else is taxed. Lots of undocumented ones...

[MarMema]

Watch your dog if you have one.

[kearnyirish2]

“Watch your dog if you have one.”

I have no problem with them eating dogs (as long as they own them); we live in a beef and pork rich area, and they don’t. I don’t have a dog (too lazy to care for one properly), but if I did it would be with the understanding that it was emergency rations...