Watch Detroit’s Rapid Collapse In These Side-By-Side Street-View Images

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ChicagoJune 2014. Earlier this year, hundreds of workers drove down Detroit streets block by block, mapping out every abandoned home, decaying factory, and trash-filled vacant lot. They counted nearly 85,000 blighted parcels; just tearing the buildings down will cost $2 billion.

Thanks to an unending public appetite for ruin porn, these numbers aren’t necessarily surprising. The modern image of Detroit is of a city that’s falling apart. But it’s easy to forget how quickly things have changed. One Detroiter decided to turn to Google Street View and Bing Maps to show how blocks keep evolving in the GooBing Detroit Tumblr, with side-by-side views of the same street in different years.

Read & see more: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3031637/watch-detroits-rapid-collapse-in-these-side-by-side-street-view-images#22

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