Detroit and almost Canada...

...put your hands up for Detroit!

It's kind of like Chicago but smaller and more french (that's why this bridge to Belle Island looks like it could be in Lyon). Here we go:

USA is clearly taller. I don't know why but I was expecting Canada to look different... however it is pretty similar to the US.
Anyways, back to Detroit. Very many abandoned houses like expected but not so bad after all. I guess the fact that I had a friend show me around could have made the difference. Some random images from driving around:

This last one is taken on the back of a really cute and delicious little restaurant. I forget the name...maybe Millers?
My friend bought the house below on the left for really cheap and will fix it himself.

Across the street a professor from the Art Institute in Chicago is already doing that. Is this the new thing to do? Everyone lets just get houses in Detroit! Some of them though look like this:

Enough with the conventional stuff. Here comes Mies and Lafayette park, aka IIT in Detroit. If I crop this picture the right way no one will be able to tell the difference.

I think, more than anything else about the park, the landscaping was amazing. It put you in a totally different mood than the rest of the city and it was just gorgeous. Way to go Caldwell! 
One of the saddest things to see in Detroit is the abandoned central train station, the Depot. It is so big and so destroyed that looks kind of fake. I guess people are trying to save it and a lot more people are trying to take pictures of it, just like me. I think Hollywood should take advantage of such opportunities for horror movies or concentration camp movies or whatever and help the city's economy. Just throwing some ideas out there.