Detroit Breathes Again
In 2013, Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Whole neighborhoods stood hollow — 78,000 abandoned buildings, streetlights dark for miles, emergency response...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Ezekiel 37:1-14.
In 2013, Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Whole neighborhoods stood hollow — 78,000 abandoned buildings, streetlights dark for miles, emergency response times averaging nearly an hour. National magazines ran cover stories declaring the city finished. Photographers treated its ruins like a modern Pompeii, something to document but never restore. Then something shifted. Not all at once, and not from a single source.…
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