Detroit's Architectural Patrimony

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Good thread Lorax!

Interestingly enough, I just read an article about how after World War II ended... that Germany knocked down twice the number of buildings damaged in the war, than was necessary.

Some nearly wiped out European cities such as Warsaw and Gdansk [[Danzig) completely rebuilt their historic old town section, while many German cities [[Frankfurt, Hamburg, etc.) bulldozed large sections of their old quarters [[even salvagable buildings) so that they could build the Mies Van De Rohe type apartment block abominations that are common in many larger German cities today.

Whenever I take tour buses full of German tourists thru Detroit, they don't much care for Lafayette Park, because it reminds them of the wholesale destruction, and banal redevelopments that replaced the more human scale historic parts of large German cities.

Odd, but true...

Note: Germany's more attractive cities are the midsize and smaller cities that were more sensitive to rebuilding/restoring their medieval areas.