The Ruins of Detroit

Christine DeRienzo

Activity #3

The Ruins of Detroit

            The images of the city of Detroit made me sad.  I grew up in the mid-west near Youngstown, Ohio and I have observed similar images in my hometown.  It is just amazing that a beautiful place that was once thriving could end up in such a state.  I made so many correlations between Detroit and Youngstown when I was observing the pictures.  The way cities can just almost become ghost towns is actually quite terrifying.  No-one knows what the future of current thriving cities holds.

            The beautiful architecture of the buildings in Detroit is still visible behind the destruction.  The fact that there were still bits and pieces of lives that were lived in those buildings made me very sad.  Books, desks, and many other items make it look like a scene from a movie where all of the people died and only the material things survived.  If the inanimate objects could talk, what would they say?  What a shame that the beauty of cities like Detroit will only be remembered by those who lived during those times or in books and movies. 

            The ruins of Detroit tell a story about what happened to a lot of once booming mid-western cities.  It forces us to really take a look at what once was and never will be again in some of these places.  This presentation is one that should be observed and learned from so that we are not filled with a nation of Detroits.