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Slate, an online magazine, just published a slide show of urban ruins in America. Detroit figures prominently among other usual suspects [[Chicago, IL; Gary, IN, Camden, NJ). I find the progression of the Packard Plant interesting. It looked like a pretty nice place as recently as 1993.
http://www.slate.com/id/2241211/
I was looking for the block in Harlem where that picture was taken, to compare it to what it looks like now. I found an interesting article about the furniture store in that photo: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/21/ny...l?pagewanted=1
Camilo Jose Vergara has been photographing urban ruins since before this site went up. He is the recipient of a Genius Grant and visits Detroit sometimes.
I was expecting the usual ruins pictures of Detroit but I liked how he had pictures of them overtime. Packard didn't even look that bad in 2000.
I found it interesting how long those buildings in other cities have been abandoned.