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The Fabulous Ruins
of Detroit Tour
This
journey begins at the bottom, amid the fabulous
ruins of Detroit, with this classic 1997
portrait of the city, and then works its way up
to Detroit's current revival. In the
process, the story of modern day Detroit will
unfold in all its complexity. Along the way, you
will be invited to listen to and join the
thousands who continue to reveal this story on
the DetroitYES forums. |
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Detroit eNEWs Tours
Created for the
DetroitYES eNEWs newsletter, since discontinued, these were tours
generated as from discussions on the DetroitYES
"Discuss Detroit" forums. |
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Detroit Mon Amour
Tours
Tours
added after the original classic tour from 1999
through 2006. |
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DetroitYES Forum Hall
of Fame Tours
Links to
the DetroitYES forum Hall of Fame threads.
Outstanding discussion threads with incredible
images and information created by the members of
the DetroitYES forums. |
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Detroit Rises Tours
Tours
featuring new developments in the recovery and
new rise of Detroit. |
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A city does not stand still in time.
Its story is written every day. With the Fabulous Ruins of Detroit tour
as a framework and guide, Detroit Mon Amour moves forward with the
flow of time to
explore the phenomenon of the International Metropolis of Detroit in
depth and detail from 1999 through 2006. The following journeys meander throughout
the city and the years, up to the present moving blending with the
audience driven forums. In their segmented totality they search for the heart
and meaning of
Detroit.
2007
DetroitYES eNEWs
Tours and webisodes were conveyed via the DetroitYES
eNEWs newsletter during 2007. They are displayed at the left.
2006
Detroit
Flyover - 1992 Aerial Views of Detroit
4th
Street Revisited - 2006 4th Street Fair
Tiger Stadium - Last Game played 2002
The
Fabulous Apartment Ruins of Detroit
Over Sixty
Spectacular Abandoned Apartment Buildings
In
Search of Community - The Price of Sprawl
2005
Detroit Rises:
Downtown Detroit Booms
Lakeside Trailer Park US MARINE HOSPITAL, WINDMILL POINT LIGHT, FOX CREEK & HARBOR ISLAND
Trombley School Demolition
Highland Park Ford HQ Illumination
Studebaker Fire
Irving Theater
2004
Wonderland
Shopping Mall
"When Malls Die"
WONDERLAND, GREENFIELD-GRAND RIVER
SPRING 2004 in Detroit
LAFAYETTE BUILDING, BELLE ISLE POLICE STATION, AMBASSADOR
BRIDGE, CHENE PARK, HIGHLAND PARK FIRE STATION RUIN, BELLE ISLE SHELTERS,
FLYNN PAVILION UPDATE, SOLANIS CASEY CAPUCHIN GARDEN, KIRK IN THE WOODS,
E. GRAND BLVD. NEW HOUSE, RENCEN PEOPLE MOVER STATION
Ormand Apartments
Ruins
Mel Farr Auto Dealership Ruins
Brush Park & Trumbull
Brightmoor
Old Downtown
The Urban Prairie - then and now
Ruins of Highland Police Station, Highland Park City Hall & Fire Department
Highland Park
Holiday Inn Demolition
Summer 2004 in the D with Belle Isle
360°
Lee Plaza Inside
Norwest
Theater Demolition
Detroit Skyline Panorama from Windsor
2003
VA Hospital Allen Park
Lincoln
Motors
Rivertown
Grande
Ballroom
Labor
Legacy Sculpture - Hart Plaza
Summer in
Detroit 2003 [MICHIGAN CENTRAL, THE WHITTIER, HART PLAZA, BELLE ISLE
BEACH, GRANDE BALLROOM, GRAFFITI, 4TH STREET FAIR]
Book Cadillac
Hotel Inside tour
Where am I? [HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW DETROIT?]
Detroit Skyline Autumn from Windsor
The
Whittier Hotel
Metropolitan
BuildingLobby
Compuware Completed+ Civil War Monument
2002
Packard
Plant
Detroit
Boat Club Inside tour
8 Mile Road Tour
Fort Wayne
Palmer
Park
Lascaux Detroit II - More
Cave Paintings of Detroit
[DEQUINDRE RR CUT GRAFFITI PAINTINGS 2]
Red Wings Victory Parade on Woodward
Eastside Detroit Driveabout
[OSSIAN SWEET HOUSE, NEW EASTSIDE HOUSING, GRAYHAVEN
ESTATES, HARBOR ISLAND, JEFFERSON AVE. BAPTIST, DETROIT WATERWORKS,
JEWISH CEMETERY, ST. CYRIL'S]
Westside
Detroit Driveabout
[8TH PRECINCT REDFORD POLICE STATION, ROSEDALE PARK,
CUNNINGHAM DRUGSTORE, HENRY FORD GRAVE, ST. MARTHA'S, ISLAMIC CENTER
OF AMERICA, JOY RD. CHURCH RUIN, MALICE GREEN SITE, BOHEMIAN HOUSE,
CORKTOWN, COMPUWARE CONSTRUCTION, RENAISSANCE CENTER WINTER GARDEN]
McGregor Library
Industrial
Building + Jim Pallas' Century of Light
Windsor Train
Ferry
Flynn Skating Pavilion - Belle Isle
Belle Isle Casino
Corrado Parducci Studio
Michigan Theater
Oakland Country Bridge
Ruin
Belle Isle Hug
Lee Plaza Lions Recovery
In
Memoriam, WTC
2001
Soulful
Detroit - Motown Era Detroit
Fabulous Ruins Night
@ the Cass Cafe
Lee
Plaza - and The Rape of Detroit
Stouffer's Inn
Demolished, Southfield
Bye, Bye Bonnie Brook
Golf Course
4th Street
Fair
Detroit 300th Birthday
Walkabout
[HART PLAZA NEW RIVERFRONT, KENNEDY SQUARE DEMOLITION,
COMPUWARE CONSTRUCTION, NATIONAL THEATER]
St. Stanislaus
Rises
from Ruins
Downriver Detroit
[ZUG ISLAND, BOBLO BOAT RUINS]
Downtown
Detroit
November
Walkabout
[CADILLAC HOTEL, COMPUWARE CONSTRUCTION, BRUSH PARK,
STATLER HOTEL, WHITNEY BUILDING, BRODERICK TOWER, FOX THEATER, PARK
AVENUE, FREE PRESS BUILDING]
Downtown
Detroit December
Night Surf
[FEDERAL BUILDING, PENOBSCOT BUILDING, COMPUWARE
CONSTRUCTION, FOX THEATER, FORT STREET PRESBYTERIAN, CORKTOWN, MICHIGAN
AVE.]
Too Beautiful for Words
[ABANDONED APARTMENTS, HOUSES AND SCHOOL]
Rivertown
Franklin Street
Doomed Westside Housing
Original Home Page Image
RenCen / Ruins Revisited
Dearborn Mega Mosque
Trumbull Mansard Beauty
Detroit
Skyline - Downtown and Bridge from Belle Isle
Westside Apartment
Building Ruin
Ambassador Bridge at Night
Hart Plaza from the Savoyard
Club
Detroit
Skyline - Detroit
and Windsor from Belle Isle at Night
2000
The
Lost Synagogues of Detroit 50+ sites from Jewish Detroit
Belle Isle
Pontiac
State Hospital
Detroit
in Beautiful Light
[GAR, CHINA TOWN, SCOTT MANSION, CASS CORRIDOR MANSIONS]
Techno on the River - DEMF
Boston
Avenue Ruins - The Ormand Apartments
Neighborhood
Montage
[SINAI HOSPITAL, THE COLLINGWOOD,1967 RIOT FLASH POINT,
AMERICAN BEAUTY IRON]
Fisher 21
Inside Tour
Greektown
Casino Opens
Trumbull
Theater
Dally in the
Alley
?Mystery
Sites?
[WWII RADAR TOWERS, YACHT PORTS, ADMIRAL THEATER, MACK
FIELD, FIRE STATION 9900 JEFFERSON]
Brush Park 2000
Fisher Plant
21
Vanity Ballroom
Park Avenue
The Ruins
of
Detroit
Contemporary Gallery
Ferry
Street Restorations
Cass / New
Center Restorations
Downtown Ruins
[MOOSE LODGE, CHIN TIKI, EDDYSTONE HOTEL, PARK AVENUE
HOTEL, MADISON LENNOX HOTEL, CADILLAC HOTEL]
Downtown Montage
[JOE LOUIS 'FIST' SCULPTURE, AMERICAN HOTEL, HUDSON'S PIT,
UNITED ARTISTS, KINSEL'S DRUGSTORE, LAFAYETTE BUILDING, FORD AUDITORIUM,
BOOK CADILLAC HOTEL, LENNOX HOTEL, MILLENNIUM BELL, TELEMARK THEATER,
1250 W. FORT, MICHIGAN CENTRAL STATION, NEW TIGER BALLPARK, GRAND CIRCUS
PARK]
United Sound Studio
1999
"Discuss Detroit"
Forum Launched
Lascaux Detroit:
The Cave Paintings of Detroit
[DEQUINDRE RR CUT GRAFFITI PAINTINGS]
Eastown
Theater Techno Rave Party
1997 - 1998
"The
Fabulous Ruins of Detroit" The original core tour of DetroitYES.com.
Et Cetera
Hudson's Department Store Implosion
Belle
Isle 360°
Panorama
Tiger Stadium 360˚ Panorama
SoulfulDetroit Night Projection Images
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The DetroitYES Project began in 1997 with the launch
of The
Fabulous Ruins of Detroit Tour to express the inherit beauty and
power of the ruins of modern day Detroit. This tour was expanded and
enhanced until 1999 when new tours began to appear independently and
the DetroitYES forum was started. The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
provides the setting and context of the DetroitYES Project -
What went wrong? What does it mean? Can it be fixed?
Industrial
Ruins of Detroit
The journey begins amid the massive industrial ruins of
Detroit. Their story and their decline form the baseline beat for
the story of Detroit as told here. The implications of their fall
cascade over the follow chapters.
Downtown Detroit Ruins
The dramatic collapse of the downtown shopping
and entertainment district of Detroit reduced large spaces to
ghost town status by the early 1990's.
Neighborhood Ruins
In this third chapter, the dominoes of decline hit the
neighborhoods and fed the poverty and social disorders that
swept away houses, schools, churches, bars and shops reducing
large areas to urban prairie status.
The City Rises
Few paths are
straight down or straight up. So it was with Detroit which,
after decades of generally downward stumbling, would change course
in the mid 1990's such that in the ten years of this website's
presence it would rise both in spirit and fact. The City rises
catches that first wave and rides with it to the present.
Fabulous
Ruins Table of Contents
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What the ruins of Detroit mean?
What brought this on? Expressways? Urban Sprawl? Racism? Foreign Competition?
Where is Detroit going?
DetroitYES is now largely
audience-authored. At the core of DetroitYES are the response and exchange of thousands
of participants on the DetroitYES forums who in turn have been read by millions
of internet visitors.
Launched in 1999, the renowned DetroitYES forums have touched on every aspect of
the Detroit family of communities, its history, its struggles and its path forward.
Over
one million posts have been created on over one hundred thousand web pages of discussions
with pictures. On the DetroitYES forum, you will find the most passionate
and knowledgeable gathering on the web of those who know about and care about
Detroit. You are invited share you knowledge with forum.
The Hall
of Fame
An archive of the most outstanding
discussions and audience generated tours of Detroit.
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Detroit falls, Detroit Rises. Detroit was in the depths of her
decline when the Fabulous Ruins of Detroit was first published on the web.
Yet the seeds of Detroit's resurgence were springing forth amid the broken glass
and crumbling brick of a decades-long decline. Detroit has dramatically
risen in the years since. The themes established in the City Rises chapter
of The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit continue here.
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