I'm just curious to read some of the opinions from others.

Many would argue Detroit is aesthetically at its worst now because of how empty it is. However, someone from another forum made an interesting case about Detroit looking worser than it does now around the year 1990 because while it was an overall denser city, half-crumbled and burnt-out building were everywhere. Even with downtown Detroit, while most would agree it looks aesthetically better than it did in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there's no question we have less critical mass now [[so they sort of cancel each other out).

So what do you think? Was Detroit at its worst aesthetically in the late 1980s/early 1990s or is it at its worst now?