Thanks for the post. Even know they were ruin photos, as a native they made me homesick!

Detroit IS a beautiful city and had many beautiful buildings, inside and out. If you've never been in the Fox Theatre, or the Fisher Building -- you need to see them. Stunning. And more historic places are being renovated all the time.

If Detroit can maintain the recent momentum in development, it may just make it. It will never be Chicago, and will never return to its former glory. But it can live a life anew. It needs to put race behind it, and steam forward.

One of my favorite sites for keeping up on things is Detroit.curbed.com.