This photo series graphically demonstrates the decline of one of America’s once-great manufacturing cities, Detroit. It’s haunting, and speaks to lots of the pathologies that face us: deindustrialization; the urbanization of poverty; the question of what to do with so much real estate in places that have stopped being socially relevant. It’s quite a set.

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   is simultaneously beautiful

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