My brother in Michigan sent me this link:

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

Plenty of urbex and Motown music but also regeneration of a failed city from the grass roots up.

Really interesting! Watching now. Thanks for sharing.

great stuff. best thing ive watched this wek, if i was stateside id seriously think of movin there, my kinda place, cheers for link …..

Brilliant stuff….
Looks like a gem for urban riders and bmx.

Great vid – i went there 3 times in the early mid90’s, a mate from Uni went out there to work as an engineer for a firm that supplies to GM! It was a crazy place with a rich underground scene and some proper no go areas!

The same thing is happening there as happened in Hebden Bridge: industrial town goes down the pan – property prices bottom out – hippies and artists move in – town reinvents itself.

A little bigger than Hebden though, admittedly!

superb..!

thanks for sharing

Detroit to be twinned with Hebden Bridge!! I like it!!! 😀

Thanks globalti, that’s a great video. I really liked the way they pointed out the brand new school next to the empty one! I’m also quite impressed with Johnny Noxville doing something serious.

I only skipped through it – will watch in full later – but it seems like a classic case of gentrification. While that is often seem as positive, there are also many downsides to that kind of redevelopment.

hmm.. certainly by the bikesnob definition.. (the part in the film where the cafe owner describes the 200 hipsters on their bikes cannot be refuted.. 🙂 )

I don’t think Detroit can possibly be described as a classic case of anything though can it..? And there’s always downsides to change

I’d be interested to get your opinion after you watch the full film

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/robocop/18997/work-begins-on-detroit%E2%80%99s-robocop-statue

I’ll have to watch this later. I go to Detroit maybe 10 times a year (I was there most of this week) and will probably go more soon. Central Detroit is really desperate apart from the small downtown area.

On the upside I know many great people in Detroit, some very weathly people and outside the centre there are some great neighbourhoods (Grosse Point anyone?).

However the housing and industrial decay is to be seen to be beleived, especially the scale. I’ve traveled alot of the US and Europe and only early 90’s eastern europe comes close.

Industrial areas of Britain looked like that in the 60s and 70s and in Lancashire there are still derelict cotton mills:

thanks for the heads up, loved it, feeling inspired

it seems like a classic case of gentrification.

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While you’re all on Vice.com, I urge you to watch the Vice Guide to Liberia.

“I am General Butt Naked!”

“Why do they call you that?”

“Because when I go into battle, I am always butt naked”

Interesting, heartwarming documentary but it kinda fails on some of the practical levels to tell the story. There simply aren’t enough people in Detroit to make a different (not enough taxes to support the infrastructure)and although the grass roots stuff described here helps it’s a massive problem. Think of a place the size of a large UK city thats lying derelict. Until it starts to repopulate or get raised the situation won’t change.