Al Martin, 7-6-09:
[...] Imagine a 100-square blocks in a city on a hot summer night. Only one out of every twenty streetlamps is working, and even that is low-wattage. These lamps are broken and swinging back and forth in the wind. There’s rusted out steel drums lying here and there. Pyres of burning scrapwood. In the background there are shadowy figures darting in and out of buildings, trying to salvage anything or strip the remaining buildings of anything that’s worth anything.
Since no electricity is being provided to these residents anymore, what this private management cum security company does is they bring in old water trucks. Then these water trucks are placed at certain locations during certain times. The people then totter down with their old plastic buckets and bottles to get their water [...]
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Detroit: The Post-Apocalyptic Future of American Cities?
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1 comments:
yeah, that's some scary shit, dunno why, but i got this bad vision of Detroit, maybe it's media induced?
i actually caught a little clip about artists moving there to buy the cheap houses & trying to start an artists community type of thang, good luck to them...
...i had a similar idea last summer when i noticed you could buy a house in Buffalo NY for like $8,000!!!! i was stoked, nice old houses, but i'm such a pussy, i'd never survive the winter -- the housing market down south is still pretty fuckin' high, even after the bubble burst...but if i ever end up homeless, i've already made up my mind to go back to my hillbilly roots & go mountain man style...i've always kinda wanted to be a caveman, but it's difficult to maintain a library of books inna cave...
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