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Originally posted by Sarc
on our trip down via woodward we decided to explore Palmer Woods and stumbled on a vacant house by Frank Lloyd Wright on 7 mile. This particular house was from the same era as his usonion works out in L.A.
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I know that house, I'm so bumbed out now.
Detroit has some great architecture, but much of it is too far gone and neglected to recover. The politics is a good point people have been making.
As an architect with Urban Design experience, I can tell you that other rust belt cities recovered in degrees and in order of how much they kept, and not tore down . That is to say, the less they tore down, the quicker they recovered.
There is a point of no return where you have the "tear down cost" added to the "rebuild cost", that is where some parts of Detroit are at.