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View Resource The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit

Created by Lowell Boileau, this site documents what some feel is the "American Athens": postindustrial Detroit. In the first two decades of this century, Henry Ford and his contemporaries spurred a massive industrial expansion in the city. Now, at the end of the century, many of these huge factory and office buildings lie silent, abandoned, and slowly decaying. Boileau's site offers a number of...

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