Well I have the answer - the State! Americans because of some reasons are afraid of this word, but here it is necessary. First you should clean all this garbage and rebuild roads. Then you shoud fix the minimal tax for business and employees, adn give to this city maximal indulgences. It's good to have fixed taxes for entire state or country, but there is a particular case. Be more flexible!
makes you think is it safe to walk around there without geting Muged or Jumped ? , i am heading out that way in the summer time and i would not mind to drive around to check them out . I would get out of the car but i dont feel like geting jumped or killed lol
All these people saying "tear down the buildings" are idiots. Detroit doesn't even have the money to keep its city clean, let alone tear stuff down and rebuild. And besides that these buildings are beautiful pieces of history. Its really sad to see them like this.
Pretty soon their won't be any more police/fire/emt services. The city won't be able to finance it! Tax base is shrinking. In fact Detroit is facing bankruptcy right now and the state is trying to take over.Maybe the fed government will make it an official homeless shelter before too many weeds grow up around it!
This is happening to cities all over America and not just Detroit. It's happening in Flint,Gary,S.T. Louis, East S.t. Louis,Waterloo,Cleveland,Philadelphia just to name a few. America is in decline and has been for a while. Like a large tree that has died on the inside,it takes a while longer before the outside shows the signs and finally falls over completely! America's manufacturing jobs have been outsourced overseas. We are living in historic times as we witness the steady fall of America!
People have tried to be positive about Detroit and hope to see it rise again, but the truth is Detroit is never coming back. It will be a small city in 20 years something like the size of Reno, NV.
@DennisfromDC Yeah, it's crazy. Detroit lost 25 percent of it's population from 2000 to 2010. That city is dying fast. It's moved from 10th largest to 18th largest city. It's probably fallen even farther down the list since the 2010 census.
Hey all you Detroit peoples !!! We tryin to do somethin big here ... just made a new Detroit anthem called "Renaissance City" .... tryin to show people the positive side of the city. We want to know if you all are feelin it or not so come thru and let us know!! ~Peace~
AGGHH MAKE IT STOP !!! lol.. this is hurting my brain. The WADL sign on the people mover has a big picture of Kwame on it. Even the pigeons are thinking about leaving LOL
@jadedheart30 Because so many people have left the city. Detroit has lost over ONE MILLION people since peaking in the 50's. That's what happens when a city finds itself with a corrupt, entrenched political machine that is more concerned in maintaining power than doing what is right for the city.
The building at 0:47 is really cool. Things will get better for downtowns like Detroit as gas prices rise over the next decades. People will begin moving back into cities and out of the burbs as the cost of commuting continues to rise.
this is what happens when big bussiness supors everything. Small bussiness last longer because they are sustainable, big bussiness sucks the resources and when it leaves, everything stands empty. THis happened in colorado when the shale oil left, it happened when the gold rush ended.
Detroit is a sad example of another union hard at work, look how great things are in California the same ideas have brought that once great state to it's knees 50% of this country doesn't pay any tax's. i love this country & hope we the PEOPLE can figure this out not we the democrat's & republicans please wake up America its embarrassing.
@buellsrule1200 You mean they don't pay FEDERAL INCOME TAX. But they DO pay sales taxes and FICA taxes and sometimes state income and even property taxes! The last usually paid by elderly people who, as you say, pay no taxes.
Im reminded of that Simpsons episode when they invest all the towns budget into a Monorail and the town like all before who did the same falls into rack and ruin. Let that be a lesson to all town planners every where. Detroit is a beautiful city that can and will be great again.
@WNxRadeon Many of those businesses, houses, and buildings were subjected to forclosure. Detroit's economy is severely bad. More bad than what America is facing. As the forclosing people payed a visit to those places, they had taken all of the tables, furniture, and other stuff out to the side walk for the garbage people to dispose them. As those houses and buildings went into a state of vacancy, they crumbled down, became moldy, and got a bad state. That's all why they are empty.
I feel sorry for Americans. Americans are are disrespected world-wide, the country is bankrupt, looking at the US cities that are dying, it's hard to see how many American youth have much of a chance at reasonable future. Over 30% of the US population is obese and people in other countries can easily see into your drug and violence problems by turning on any US news station. It's like your whole country is decaying. I feel for you all.
As George Carlin said (regarding America)... people are just dumb. They care more about getting the next gadget than anything else. Sums it up for sure.
If communist China or muslim Arabs decide to dump the dollar internationally or withdraw their invested trillions from the US economy, You might start to see several american cities abandoned like this. A scary thought... How america didnt see this happen is a mystery to me. The Asians have bled you dry for decades and you keep letting them do it. GM is big in China now. Soon they will start shipping Chinese built GMs back to USA. So much for craftsmanship and patriotism.
WHY DONT THEY JUST TEAR THE PLACE DOWN AND REBUILD?. IT WOULD BE CHEAPER, AFTER ALL WHAT THERE NOW...NOTHING BUT DISPARE HOLD THE LOCAL GOVERMENT ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTION. WASTE CORRUPTION GREED WILL KILL ANY CITY. START OVER LET THE PRIVATE SECTOR LEAD THE WAY AND THIS TIME KEEP THE GOVERMENT OUT OF THE WAY.
@frogeyeful the reason they dont rebuild is due to how expensive it is, with all the enviormentaly screwed up groups we cant just knock it down recylce the concrete and build new, same thing with homes that are abandon its so expensive and the city is broke, if people of the burbs gave a damn and cleaned up there own property the city would come by and clean up the vacant lots but workers dont wanna go to the hood and clean up a neighborhood that will turn on them and try and rob em
i was wondering, can u rent a highrise studio/one bedroom for cheap in the HEART of downtown detroit? I might practice criminal defense there upon completion of law school.
I live in Detroit and I have to say, sometimes it feels like the citys getting better and sometimes it's just plain old "Detroit". It's not as bad as people think though. I mean all citys, people, countries, celebrities, states, and baisicly everything has a sterio type. New York, Harlem, Kansas city, st. Lewis, Chicago. But crime does happen every ware even in your little goodie two shoes suburb. Remember that. ;)
more like what happens when you have a history of the most corrupt politicians in office. left or right doesn't matter. glad i left MI (more specifically metro detroit). the whole state is corrupt. i'm qualified to speak on the subject after spending 11 years there and having worked in detroit. changed my world-view forever. i've heard that when something goes down in MI, it's only a matter of time before the same problems arise everywhere else. God, i hope it doesn't get that bad everywhere
seriously guys you are all making hateful comments to a city that you only know from youtube videos, there maybe many people there who were corrupt and created the desolation of detroit, but there are still so many hard working people in Detroit trying to improve the place that all of you snobs on youtube make fun of. How about instead of making jokes about the suffering people in my hometown you all could do a little something to help us hard workers make Motown great again
b/c its not our job to fix the city that your elected officials screwed up. Its your own fault when you all elected corrupt politicians. Maybe start electing politicians with vision on industry other than auto and then we might help you recover.
man its crazy im from lansing and i went to detroit a couple months ago and i swear the downtown there had about as many people as ours out on a normal day and we're like a tenth of the size. i hope something great can come to detroit in the future cause its really a cool place but only time will tell
@Potew Its a face. you can see the eyes in the middle where the wood/whatever goes across the window and then you can see a long row of teeth under it. If you look at the window on the bottom left, you can see a smiliar image more clearer.
Unreal. Simply unreal. Looks like the only future for Detorit is to be turned into a giant prison. John Carpenter was right only he picked the wrong city. Ironically I saw "Escape from New York" back in 1981 in Detroit. Unreal.
@yedon68 I live here as well. Corrupt mayor after corrupt mayor probably doesnt help, I know a few people that had "financial help" from the mayor before quami, including my father. Lets just say the money didnt go where it was suppose to go :)
bulldoze it. just demolish it all. or rent it out to make monster/alien attacking earth , or war movies and just blow it up. they could hire the unemployed as extras and at least make some use of this disgraceful mess. there is no other solution than tearing it down, may as well make some cash off of it. its too bad. my folks lived in detroit in the 40s and 50s when it was alive and liked it. glad they are not alive to see it as it is now.
All the money that the criminal American government spends on illegal wars and all the jobs the filthy rich shipped to China and people wonder why Detroit is such a disaster. The truth is that the future of this insane country is exactly DETROIT!
Many of these building have been turned into condo's and lofts. Also, a lot of them have been demolished. Please, if yo haven't been to Detroit please don't comment on how bad it looks.
No one will buy an American car, not even Americans; the world thinks we're just a bunch of "Goons" walking around with our underwear and our butts sticking out...
@Janusha I read your comment before watching the video and I thought you were being sarcastic. Now I know what you mean. Amazing music and the last frame is perfect! Fav'd and FB'd.
So sad to see a great American City in ruin like this. I am from the Denver, CO area, and we are seeing population growth to the point that on top of new skyscrapers going up, we are seeing old abandoned buildings/warehouses/factories renovated and turned into new office space/high end apartments/bars/restaurants. I mean it seems to be just the opposite. I feel so bad for Detroit. Hopefully it will make a comeback, but I feel like some major demolition needs to take place first.
I doubt Detroit will return to what it was. Or that any kind of business would return. I mean.. Why would it. If I was starting up a big manufactoring company in USA today I wouldnt start business anywhere near an abandoned, unsafe, dirty and ruined city that looks like it was ravaged by the zombie apocalypse. I would stay clear of any city that prides themselves on being "murda capital"
I've lived most of my 62 yrs. in Detroit. I watched people from the South come up to the Union plants, put their years in & take their pensions back South. Then the moderate middle-class moved to the suburbs & had malls built to spend their money there. I watched corrupt officials & city employees of every rank steal the city blind. I voted against them but they still got elected. I mourn for the city of my youth & what it once was (Belle Isle, Hudson's Dept. Store etc.)
@iLuvJapann yeah and probably the most innovative and industrial its okay Detroit and Michigan as a whole is getting back track which will probably help the whole nation like once before.
I'm not from Detroit but I find it's actually kind of beautiful, sort of a historical kind of beauty in the ruined buildings. If I weren't scared of the dangers there, I'd probably go on a trip to explore the old abandoned buildings or something.
@hwoarang92 Yeah I have been thinking personally that this video is kind of inspirational, when I first saw it I was kinda shocked how much so, perhaps because of the style of Graffiti reminded me of the Native Americans, and I only just yesterday learned I am related to Wyandotte (Huron) who helped settle Detroit. Look at the trees growing on top of the buildings. This is proof that nature will reclaim what is hers. Who lives in those buildings now? Who has taken care over? Peace - not drugs.
GOOD FILM. It's an awful situation, what it shows. So much waste, such a slowdown. Terrible, empty buildings. An indictment of modern America. Where has all the wealth gone?
LIBERIA
HUJ00000 1 week ago
detroit should be used for movies like batman, the old rundown gothic style buildings are awesome
jhaul21 2 weeks ago
@jhaul21 Or to play airsoft... :p
Krasnostav 1 week ago
building are more beautiful when abandoned.
BleedingDiamondz 2 weeks ago
country of garbage
razmoe2000 3 weeks ago
that graf on the windows is cool
iLLWiL420 3 weeks ago
Well I have the answer - the State! Americans because of some reasons are afraid of this word, but here it is necessary. First you should clean all this garbage and rebuild roads. Then you shoud fix the minimal tax for business and employees, adn give to this city maximal indulgences. It's good to have fixed taxes for entire state or country, but there is a particular case. Be more flexible!
I didn't know that America have such places...
TheSiberian73 3 weeks ago
makes you think is it safe to walk around there without geting Muged or Jumped ? , i am heading out that way in the summer time and i would not mind to drive around to check them out . I would get out of the car but i dont feel like geting jumped or killed lol
mazdaman1982 3 weeks ago
@mazdaman1982 Just stay in what's left of the city part. The rest is a jungle.
Costerguy1234556 6 days ago
All these people saying "tear down the buildings" are idiots. Detroit doesn't even have the money to keep its city clean, let alone tear stuff down and rebuild. And besides that these buildings are beautiful pieces of history. Its really sad to see them like this.
agirlonacomputer 3 weeks ago
One day,when studying the ruins of Detroit,archaeologists will ask the question--what happened here?
MrArdata 4 weeks ago
Pretty soon their won't be any more police/fire/emt services. The city won't be able to finance it! Tax base is shrinking. In fact Detroit is facing bankruptcy right now and the state is trying to take over.Maybe the fed government will make it an official homeless shelter before too many weeds grow up around it!
MrArdata 4 weeks ago
This is happening to cities all over America and not just Detroit. It's happening in Flint,Gary,S.T. Louis, East S.t. Louis,Waterloo,Cleveland,Philadelphia just to name a few. America is in decline and has been for a while. Like a large tree that has died on the inside,it takes a while longer before the outside shows the signs and finally falls over completely! America's manufacturing jobs have been outsourced overseas. We are living in historic times as we witness the steady fall of America!
MrArdata 4 weeks ago
End times aren't as epic as Hollywood would want out to believe. It's just like meh, it's over. We all knew it won't last.
Isaiah6517 1 month ago
People have tried to be positive about Detroit and hope to see it rise again, but the truth is Detroit is never coming back. It will be a small city in 20 years something like the size of Reno, NV.
DennisfromDC 1 month ago
@DennisfromDC Yeah, it's crazy. Detroit lost 25 percent of it's population from 2000 to 2010. That city is dying fast. It's moved from 10th largest to 18th largest city. It's probably fallen even farther down the list since the 2010 census.
spinnernet1 1 month ago
This is the future of America
norwaykieran 1 month ago
THE FIRST MEGA STRONGHOLD AFTER THE APOCALYPSE .........DETROIT.....
ultimatefreedom1983 1 month ago
GREAT VID! THANX!
nessouz971 1 month ago
De-Industrialization has made the great Detroit motor city only a shell of what it once was. Its sad the elite are ruining the whole world like this.
DuecePiece 1 month ago
Hey all you Detroit peoples !!! We tryin to do somethin big here ... just made a new Detroit anthem called "Renaissance City" .... tryin to show people the positive side of the city. We want to know if you all are feelin it or not so come thru and let us know!! ~Peace~
FusionRecordsTV 1 month ago
Do anybody still live in Detroit?
It's like a big ghost town, day by day.
Thinker669 2 months ago
@Thinker669 this video is amazing...why is detroit a ghosttown? i live over 20.000km away from there...i want see that live.
tperformance86 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
I'd use the skyscrapers as bases lol
BoyChibi 2 months ago
AGGHH MAKE IT STOP !!! lol.. this is hurting my brain. The WADL sign on the people mover has a big picture of Kwame on it. Even the pigeons are thinking about leaving LOL
tedcantu1 2 months ago
Excellent video, thanks for sharing.
MultiBrados 2 months ago
This was clearly an advertisement for Verizon WIreless
nertanef 2 months ago
chuck norris just walked through detroit
iam1and1isme 2 months ago
If I was homeless, I'd just go here instead of sticking to the streets :o
BlipHost 3 months ago
00:24 Because they're haunter ooooooooOOOWeeeeeeeEEEoooOOOO :P
dingledorf1 3 months ago
why are they ababdoned
jadedheart30 3 months ago
@jadedheart30 Because so many people have left the city. Detroit has lost over ONE MILLION people since peaking in the 50's. That's what happens when a city finds itself with a corrupt, entrenched political machine that is more concerned in maintaining power than doing what is right for the city.
JeffDeWitt 1 month ago
i love the music, btw. :/
saptemai 3 months ago
i think the first building is next to comerica park
yanksrulebostonsucks 3 months ago
The building at 0:47 is really cool. Things will get better for downtowns like Detroit as gas prices rise over the next decades. People will begin moving back into cities and out of the burbs as the cost of commuting continues to rise.
ImFaceman 3 months ago
@ImFaceman
Why would they move downtown though? What jobs are they moving closer to? The industry is gone.
jaewoovoodoo 2 months ago
coming to a city near you
bradq 3 months ago
Fallout IRL ???
axesata 3 months ago
it would be amazing to explore..
Hexkon 3 months ago
i'm from Iran, i want to know why this city is so abandoned?
TheKourosh1990 3 months ago
@TheKourosh1990 Because Detroit is the center of American auto industry, which declined in the last 30 years.
DushevnaSepsa 3 months ago
@TheKourosh1990 America sent it's auto manufacturing jobs overseas (cheaper labor, more money for people at top)
7leprechaun7 3 months ago
In Europe we never had something comparable with these art deco skyscrapers during the first half of the 20th century...
Schlittenfahrer93 3 months ago
some parts are abandoned
thefuzzyducky1 3 months ago
More socialism!!...
astat1 4 months ago
This is America's future if DC is making the right decissions.... What a pity of a so beautiful country...
Beun007 4 months ago
this is what happens when big bussiness supors everything. Small bussiness last longer because they are sustainable, big bussiness sucks the resources and when it leaves, everything stands empty. THis happened in colorado when the shale oil left, it happened when the gold rush ended.
yazuification 4 months ago
The Government will have to do something.... look the new L.A downtown in california...it's nice.
CLUBAMIGOS540AM 4 months ago
I'm from Michigan and we are hurting as the nation turns its back to focus on foreign policy. We need help at home. God bless.
obriekat 4 months ago
new orleans is not far behind,,,as the FEDs just declared they are shutting the Gov = no cks for new orleans = no economy.
what NO did was to take the old buildings, cotton mills and make them into apts/condos...successful adventure.
how long will new orleans survive? til next flood
paulfbest 4 months ago
Zombie apocalypse has hit Detroit
ferrarimike23 4 months ago
Great video, not many sky scrapers here in Scotland just castles, villages and old hospitals.
AbandonedScotland 4 months ago
Wow! I live in Indianapolis which is also a rust belt city and has really bad areas in it... but damn! look at all that empty real estate!
TheDarkstar36 4 months ago
can you say thank you to the dems that have been in charge det for many a decade. oh by the way the rep are the same nowadays.
238raymo 4 months ago
Detroit is a sad example of another union hard at work, look how great things are in California the same ideas have brought that once great state to it's knees 50% of this country doesn't pay any tax's. i love this country & hope we the PEOPLE can figure this out not we the democrat's & republicans please wake up America its embarrassing.
buellsrule1200 4 months ago
@buellsrule1200 You mean they don't pay FEDERAL INCOME TAX. But they DO pay sales taxes and FICA taxes and sometimes state income and even property taxes! The last usually paid by elderly people who, as you say, pay no taxes.
EdM021 3 months ago
Wow, Detroit is a mess. I thought parts of Atlanta were bad, but Motown takes the cake. Thanks for uploading this video...I feel blessed!
seand67 4 months ago
Im reminded of that Simpsons episode when they invest all the towns budget into a Monorail and the town like all before who did the same falls into rack and ruin. Let that be a lesson to all town planners every where. Detroit is a beautiful city that can and will be great again.
conansfries 4 months ago
@conansfries Yes, Detroit looks like North Haverbrook :)
Sherpaful 4 months ago
@Sherpaful Are you referring to the fictional city in the Simpsons? Or is there really a Detroit like North Haverbrook?
urantivirus 4 months ago
What a dump, The whole city should be torn down.
skilo1983 4 months ago
why are they empty?
WNxRadeon 5 months ago
@WNxRadeon Many of those businesses, houses, and buildings were subjected to forclosure. Detroit's economy is severely bad. More bad than what America is facing. As the forclosing people payed a visit to those places, they had taken all of the tables, furniture, and other stuff out to the side walk for the garbage people to dispose them. As those houses and buildings went into a state of vacancy, they crumbled down, became moldy, and got a bad state. That's all why they are empty.
dannyboyyy1000 4 months ago
BUY AMERICAN stop sending our jobs over sea's.STOP IMPORTS
Misfitsix1 5 months ago
I feel sorry for Americans. Americans are are disrespected world-wide, the country is bankrupt, looking at the US cities that are dying, it's hard to see how many American youth have much of a chance at reasonable future. Over 30% of the US population is obese and people in other countries can easily see into your drug and violence problems by turning on any US news station. It's like your whole country is decaying. I feel for you all.
catherinestdenis1 5 months ago
@catherinestdenis1
As George Carlin said (regarding America)... people are just dumb. They care more about getting the next gadget than anything else. Sums it up for sure.
at1212b 4 months ago
@catherinestdenis1 It's not so bad.
It's like living in the Middle Ages. But with wi-fi.
bobbygnosis 4 months ago
lolitas rofl
dervish2173 5 months ago
Detroit 1-8-7 was brilliant. I miss it.
david2032blogs 5 months ago
I still believe Detroit is destined to be great again...somehow, someway, I truly believe that city will see greatness once again...
TheJenn85345 5 months ago
@TheJenn85345 i too believe that day will come
dash257 5 months ago
Once the great symboles of capitialism are now fadin so badly that my heart cryes out to say God truly save America.
sharkkakirde1 5 months ago
I come back and watch this video for the music.
Janusha 5 months ago
Owning a bulldozer and dump truck would be wise investments for folks living nearby Detroit.
EconCat88 5 months ago
Can you imagine if new york look like this
AeroPolice 5 months ago
@AeroPolice
If communist China or muslim Arabs decide to dump the dollar internationally or withdraw their invested trillions from the US economy, You might start to see several american cities abandoned like this. A scary thought... How america didnt see this happen is a mystery to me. The Asians have bled you dry for decades and you keep letting them do it. GM is big in China now. Soon they will start shipping Chinese built GMs back to USA. So much for craftsmanship and patriotism.
Janusha 5 months ago
@Janusha ...and to think that the Chinesse only makes worthless junk that does not last.
dany456asd 5 months ago
really, a sad city :( seems like prypiat :S
charango2010 5 months ago
Thats really sad..whats the reason it got abandoned and is it still?
soldieroffurtune09 5 months ago
I think about the auto industry and the meny who are still wealthy today because of it. Then I think of how disconnected they are from North America.
pwarren1010 5 months ago
Moral decline has led to material decline.
sonia0865 5 months ago
People need to buy American cars, not Japanese
Bass2Intense 5 months ago
First start would be to buy American goods and cars.
sonnylatchstring 5 months ago
Would be perfect for vertical gardens/growing!
liagarden 5 months ago
what happend whit detroit? it was a good town isn't it? what is the reason why its got abandoned?
RentedH1tm4nBen 5 months ago
what a toilet town
MrBenzo3000 5 months ago
detroit will never rise from the dead it seems.
FlamingLavaOwl 5 months ago
So funny you speak of corporate greed and then advocate for privatization lol now that's irony
Kane6676 6 months ago
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Have you fell to you knees
Are you begging for hope
Well I hear you pleas
So who can be the blame
To bringing this kingdom down
Making us kings and queens
kneel with our crowns To read the rest go to madinablogs . ucoz. com
If you have a story i can write for you. Detroit need our help and there's alot we can do. sakeenanolen@yahoo.com
MadinaNolen 6 months ago
WHY DONT THEY JUST TEAR THE PLACE DOWN AND REBUILD?. IT WOULD BE CHEAPER, AFTER ALL WHAT THERE NOW...NOTHING BUT DISPARE HOLD THE LOCAL GOVERMENT ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTION. WASTE CORRUPTION GREED WILL KILL ANY CITY. START OVER LET THE PRIVATE SECTOR LEAD THE WAY AND THIS TIME KEEP THE GOVERMENT OUT OF THE WAY.
frogeyeful 6 months ago
@frogeyeful the reason they dont rebuild is due to how expensive it is, with all the enviormentaly screwed up groups we cant just knock it down recylce the concrete and build new, same thing with homes that are abandon its so expensive and the city is broke, if people of the burbs gave a damn and cleaned up there own property the city would come by and clean up the vacant lots but workers dont wanna go to the hood and clean up a neighborhood that will turn on them and try and rob em
sm32586 6 months ago
@frogeyeful The public sector is also what led to its rise.
UMAnnArbor2 6 months ago
i was wondering, can u rent a highrise studio/one bedroom for cheap in the HEART of downtown detroit? I might practice criminal defense there upon completion of law school.
PacSmash 6 months ago
nice music choice ;)
stephaniejaah 6 months ago
lmao at 0:47 i think thats my moms car because it looks just like that and it got stolen
wildonessoccerpro 6 months ago
Looks like the tv show good times
Labzo441 6 months ago
this place doesn't look much better than Pripyat
HAPKAH 6 months ago
By the way the song is DinDinWo (little child). My sub French teacher always put on that song
marnky887 6 months ago
Even the bird's moved out !
dmttsn 6 months ago
Very interesting.
Nilerenth 6 months ago
detroit at its peak used to have around 2 million people, now they are down to about 700000 i believe. and that is over the course of about 50 years.
also from the 2000 to the 2010 cencus, they lost another 100000 people
THEGUYS2014 6 months ago
Will the city go back to prarie?
SteffanLlwyd 6 months ago
What can we do with all those spaces?
realtmo1 7 months ago
It's really funny. If you actually go down to the abandoned areas of Detroit, you can see herds of deer grazing.
reeree746 7 months ago
Cool doc. Well done. Check out the video for my song, "Detroit, Detroit"
ShereJeremy 7 months ago
@SamariatanUSA
The music isn't performed by Din Din Wo- the song is called "Din Din Wo" (Little Child) and is performed by Habib Koite and Bamada.
xDennisTheMenacex 7 months ago
It is such a shame to see a dead city. Rome went through a similar decline, it only took a thousand years to rejuvenate itself.
yaluobud 7 months ago
Terrible!
Bigfriendly15 7 months ago
Detroit would be a ghost town, if not for GM and Chrysler.........so don't forget to Buy American.
TruthOldSchoolStyle 7 months ago
@TruthOldSchoolStyle
Hey, 85% of the Toyota Camry is built here.
chmellen 7 months ago
Truly the city of the damned
joesmoe71 7 months ago
I live in Detroit and I have to say, sometimes it feels like the citys getting better and sometimes it's just plain old "Detroit". It's not as bad as people think though. I mean all citys, people, countries, celebrities, states, and baisicly everything has a sterio type. New York, Harlem, Kansas city, st. Lewis, Chicago. But crime does happen every ware even in your little goodie two shoes suburb. Remember that. ;)
Gnomepasta 7 months ago
o.O
Porty1119 7 months ago
I live here
MrTaco1818 7 months ago
@MrTaco1818 If you dont mind me asking, what is it like living in Detroit? Have you ever lived anywhere else and how does the D compare to it?
GUEROMEXICANO831 7 months ago
@willsecret Actually the train station will be part of a optical illusion for a magician who is going to disappear the train station.
xBUCKxWaZxHEREx 8 months ago
At least they are fixing up the old train station :)
willssecret 8 months ago
why is it empty in detroit? a hurricane went by?? .. if i lived there i would make one of the empty skyscrapers MINE :)
farerse 8 months ago
more like what happens when you have a history of the most corrupt politicians in office. left or right doesn't matter. glad i left MI (more specifically metro detroit). the whole state is corrupt. i'm qualified to speak on the subject after spending 11 years there and having worked in detroit. changed my world-view forever. i've heard that when something goes down in MI, it's only a matter of time before the same problems arise everywhere else. God, i hope it doesn't get that bad everywhere
Sheillala2008 8 months ago
seriously guys you are all making hateful comments to a city that you only know from youtube videos, there maybe many people there who were corrupt and created the desolation of detroit, but there are still so many hard working people in Detroit trying to improve the place that all of you snobs on youtube make fun of. How about instead of making jokes about the suffering people in my hometown you all could do a little something to help us hard workers make Motown great again
themunson35 8 months ago
@themunson35
b/c its not our job to fix the city that your elected officials screwed up. Its your own fault when you all elected corrupt politicians. Maybe start electing politicians with vision on industry other than auto and then we might help you recover.
You cant help those that don't help themselves.
nathansensation5 7 months ago
@nathansensation5
Right on!!!!
chmellen 7 months ago
Fallout 3? O wait its detroit...(no disrespect)
stapia505 8 months ago
@stapia505
....to fallout 3
budpurps 8 months ago
man thats sad.
HALIFAXJAYR 8 months ago
Looks like east germany short after the re-union.
wesen345 8 months ago
It's so abandoned even the pigeon was abandoned
TheyreGonnaCrucifyMe 8 months ago
Arby's must have that 5 for $5 deal again.
RikDaPrik 8 months ago
man its crazy im from lansing and i went to detroit a couple months ago and i swear the downtown there had about as many people as ours out on a normal day and we're like a tenth of the size. i hope something great can come to detroit in the future cause its really a cool place but only time will tell
SinoCortez 8 months ago
Looks like a scene from The Omega Man and Escape from New York.
AXESMI 8 months ago
@AXESMI No it looks like a scene from Blackhawk Down
cetaepsilon 8 months ago
no people
livefreeinuk1 8 months ago
What is drawn at the lowest window to the right at 2:40?
Potew 8 months ago
@Potew Honestly, I'm not sure.
SamaritanUSA 8 months ago
@Potew Its a face. you can see the eyes in the middle where the wood/whatever goes across the window and then you can see a long row of teeth under it. If you look at the window on the bottom left, you can see a smiliar image more clearer.
saint76767676 8 months ago
@Potew skullhead with many teeth
MrLtotheOU 8 months ago
@Potew resembles Beetlejuice maybe..
FocusHex 7 months ago
@Potew it is sun ,my sons name with a snake above it
mbaber313 6 months ago
@Potew a face
xxVxLCxMxx 5 months ago
@Potew its a smiley face
traxxaschuck 5 months ago
@Potew looks like a U and a black squiqily line...
resqjason2 3 months ago
Unreal. Simply unreal. Looks like the only future for Detorit is to be turned into a giant prison. John Carpenter was right only he picked the wrong city. Ironically I saw "Escape from New York" back in 1981 in Detroit. Unreal.
m2101j 8 months ago
reminds me of I Am Legend
KemperIndustries 8 months ago
A KING GARAGE!
MIKON8ERISBACK 8 months ago
...I am a native of Detroit...moved aways years ago...this is sad...who do we blame.?
yedon68 9 months ago
@yedon68 I live here as well. Corrupt mayor after corrupt mayor probably doesnt help, I know a few people that had "financial help" from the mayor before quami, including my father. Lets just say the money didnt go where it was suppose to go :)
nineball6969 9 months ago
I wonder if I could buy one of those buildings ALL to myself for liquidation price? :3
I would call it: AJ's cool, awesome, sexy skyscraper club.
m1up 9 months ago
@m1up DO IT. If you don't then I will!
tmmullenhevey 8 months ago
All of the painted windows. Are they squatters?
frogsoda 9 months ago
i live in ny and if those apartments would cost million
craziikid9 9 months ago
Open it up to farming. That's what it was.
reddnec 9 months ago
bulldoze it. just demolish it all. or rent it out to make monster/alien attacking earth , or war movies and just blow it up. they could hire the unemployed as extras and at least make some use of this disgraceful mess. there is no other solution than tearing it down, may as well make some cash off of it. its too bad. my folks lived in detroit in the 40s and 50s when it was alive and liked it. glad they are not alive to see it as it is now.
nomadnametab 9 months ago
@nomadnametab NO Don't bulldoze it. Leave it standing. Let it crumble to bits as lasting monument to liberalism.
frogsoda 9 months ago
Let's rave
Mikeydeno 9 months ago
All the money that the criminal American government spends on illegal wars and all the jobs the filthy rich shipped to China and people wonder why Detroit is such a disaster. The truth is that the future of this insane country is exactly DETROIT!
tommybass40 9 months ago
detroit makes el cajon look like beverly hills, and el cajon is not a nice town!
crazywomancreek 9 months ago
EWww it worse than El Cajon!
skater6511 9 months ago
OCP
superthundereagle 9 months ago
Many of these building have been turned into condo's and lofts. Also, a lot of them have been demolished. Please, if yo haven't been to Detroit please don't comment on how bad it looks.
paul734 9 months ago
@paul734 Word to that!!!!!
Mikeydeno 9 months ago
No one will buy an American car, not even Americans; the world thinks we're just a bunch of "Goons" walking around with our underwear and our butts sticking out...
TruthOldSchoolStyle 9 months ago
I keep coming back here for the music.
Janusha 10 months ago
@Janusha I read your comment before watching the video and I thought you were being sarcastic. Now I know what you mean. Amazing music and the last frame is perfect! Fav'd and FB'd.
frogsoda 9 months ago
So sad to see a great American City in ruin like this. I am from the Denver, CO area, and we are seeing population growth to the point that on top of new skyscrapers going up, we are seeing old abandoned buildings/warehouses/factories renovated and turned into new office space/high end apartments/bars/restaurants. I mean it seems to be just the opposite. I feel so bad for Detroit. Hopefully it will make a comeback, but I feel like some major demolition needs to take place first.
formber 10 months ago
@formber i agree...hopefully
just needs new leadership
detroitbboy671 10 months ago
@formber
I doubt Detroit will return to what it was. Or that any kind of business would return. I mean.. Why would it. If I was starting up a big manufactoring company in USA today I wouldnt start business anywhere near an abandoned, unsafe, dirty and ruined city that looks like it was ravaged by the zombie apocalypse. I would stay clear of any city that prides themselves on being "murda capital"
Janusha 10 months ago
Looks like something from Life After People. What a city would look 20 or 30 years like after all the people left.
poodtang1 10 months ago
I've lived most of my 62 yrs. in Detroit. I watched people from the South come up to the Union plants, put their years in & take their pensions back South. Then the moderate middle-class moved to the suburbs & had malls built to spend their money there. I watched corrupt officials & city employees of every rank steal the city blind. I voted against them but they still got elected. I mourn for the city of my youth & what it once was (Belle Isle, Hudson's Dept. Store etc.)
MrCAZimmerman 10 months ago
city so big but deserted even gangs abandoned it they must have ran out of people to kill lol
narutoyhalo4 11 months ago
@iLuvJapann yeah and probably the most innovative and industrial its okay Detroit and Michigan as a whole is getting back track which will probably help the whole nation like once before.
jackospade1 11 months ago
detroit isnt that bad really...
jackospade1 11 months ago
I'm not from Detroit but I find it's actually kind of beautiful, sort of a historical kind of beauty in the ruined buildings. If I weren't scared of the dangers there, I'd probably go on a trip to explore the old abandoned buildings or something.
hwoarang92 11 months ago
@hwoarang92 I agree,think of the days when those buildings were full of people,working,living a nice life.
mrmarkymark77 11 months ago
@hwoarang92 Yeah I have been thinking personally that this video is kind of inspirational, when I first saw it I was kinda shocked how much so, perhaps because of the style of Graffiti reminded me of the Native Americans, and I only just yesterday learned I am related to Wyandotte (Huron) who helped settle Detroit. Look at the trees growing on top of the buildings. This is proof that nature will reclaim what is hers. Who lives in those buildings now? Who has taken care over? Peace - not drugs.
Jtronique 10 months ago
this looks AWESOME! i want to go there. but only in the summer or spring ;P winter could be too tough or depressing... more vids like this!
rahvavaenlane 11 months ago
This was caused when they cut the city in half with the expressways in the early 60's.
Then northland shopping mall allowed the whites a way to shop out of the city.
Suburbia was born and when 1 black family moved onto your street you panicked and sold out as soon as you could. I lived it.
Talk to others who lived it......
reddnec 11 months ago
Wow that city is so depressing
VIDETTI08 11 months ago
@VIDETTI08 Not as depressing as others. Check out Chernobyl.
makemap 10 months ago
this is so sad
bubbabouyi 11 months ago
Just bull dozt this eye sore to the ground and leave it in a natural state, it will never come back!!!
dubblpumper 11 months ago
GOOD FILM. It's an awful situation, what it shows. So much waste, such a slowdown. Terrible, empty buildings. An indictment of modern America. Where has all the wealth gone?
newsreeldemocracy 11 months ago