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Detroit
Institute of Arts
How does decay begin?
The Fabulous Ruins
of Detroit all began as sparkling edifices, the fulfillment
of the dreams of their architects and developers.
Their end did not
come suddenly, as part of some natural disaster or war.
Instead it resulted from an accumulated lack of basic aesthetic
sensibility. A small thing left broken here, an indiscretion
of taste there, until a preponderance of damage equals an insoluble
situation. What was revered becomes scorned.
Abandonment and
vandalism follow and the damage becomes irreparable.
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