From afar, through the prism of this board [[how's that for a grain of salt?), it sounds like it is just as important that there be a bunch of people taking baby steps-to-major leaps on the little-guy scale. One Detroit emigré to Cleveland may buy and rehab an entire high-rise to great effect, but you also need a bunch of little people converting abandoned firehouses to art galleries, and such. The magic's in the aggregate of all those individual efforts.

Tiring of ruin porn is understandable. I also wouldn't want to be "surrounded" by it.

But there is a story about abandonment that is worth telling where certain ruin porn images are worth a thousand words. With some context, the school book depository [[Detroit, not Dallas, people, stay on point), for example. If it remains standing and Matty has a change of heart [[har har), they should give tours. Tours, and explanatory plaques. A warning to the world, you know.

Worth telling once. And well.