The ruin that is detroit

In 1950, Detroit was the 4th largest American city.  Now much of it is literally in ruins, as buildings are simply abandoned to return to nature's embrace.  Lots of people are remarking on the bankruptcy, but I want to show just what that all means.

You don't need office buildings when all the businesses head to friendlier locales.

I think this used to be a theater.

Here's the Church, here's the steeple.  Open the doors, where're all the people?

A tree grows in Harlem Detroit.  In the Book Repository.  Looks like the
books are still there on the shelves.  I expect ancient Rome looked like this once.

Was this once a school?

Someone went to some effort to upend that piano.

There's more here.  A cautionary tale, if we will listen.

In this decayed hole among the mountains
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel
There is the empty chapel, only the wind’s home.
It has no windows, and the door swings,
Dry bones can harm no one.

- T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland