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DEFINING DETROIT SINCE 1999

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Web Journeys into the heart of Detroit
Welcome to the gritty, vibrant and creative inner soul of Detroit!
Come, explore the great international metropolis of Detroit through thousands of images organized in a series of revealing guided tours of our enigmatic and fascinating city. .
RECENT DETROIT TOURS
Kid Rock Backdrop
Maker Faire 2011 Dearborn Michigan
Occupy Detroit
Maker Faire 2011 Dearborn Michigan
Maker Faire 2011 Dearborn Michigan
Cass Tech High School Detroit Demolition
Cass Tech High School Detroit Demolition
La Marche du Nain Rouge Detroit March 20, 2011
Hackerspace Detroit - Eastern Market
La Marche du Nain Rouge Detroit March 20, 2011
Le Marche du Nain Rouge
Foggy Detroit
Bloomfield Park - A Ruin Before it is Born
Fordson Island
Restoration Advances
Foggy Days in Detroit
Burbrook Estate
Now a Fabulous Ruin?
Quicken Moves to Downtown Detroit
A visit to the
Public Pool Gallery
in Hamtramck
BIG Thumb BIG Changes
Rebuild America March Though Downtown Detroit Tour
Downtown Synagogue & Capitol Park Revival
Belle Isle July 4, 2010
Detroit Waste Incinerator
US Social Forum Tent City
Bridges to Nowhere

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The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit Tour
GAR Building Detroit MI This journey begins at the bottom, amid the fabulous ruins of Detroit, with this 250 page classic 1997 portrait of the city, which was the origin of DetroitYES, 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 Mon Amour Tours

Tours added after the original classic tour from 1999 through 2006.

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.

Detroit Rises Tours

Tours featuring new developments in the recovery and new rise of Detroit.

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Detroit Mon Amour
Journeys into the Heart of Detroit

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.

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The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit Tour

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?
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DetroitYES Discussion Forums
What is the meaning of the ruins of Detroit? 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. 
Detroit RisesTours
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.

Hotel Charlevoix Next to Fall?
Belle Isle Stables, Detroit, MichiganHotel Charlevoix Next to Fall?

Will the Hotel Charlevoix come down? The long-crumbling 1905 William Joy-designed edifice on Park Avenue is fenced off and the owner has petitioned for permission to have it demolished.

Should this historic structure be allowed to fall or should it be preserved as part of Detroit's architectural legacy? Follow the discussion... read more »

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