Reply #16: Large hunks of Detroit are urban prairie today. See "Detroit Wildlife" - link [View All]

[Bozita]

http://vimeo.com/2371774


http://www.doobybrain.com/2009/01/30/documentary-about-the-decay-of-detroit/

Gordon said I should watch this video called Detroit Wildlife of one person’s depiction of Detroit City as a wonderful transforming landscape rather than a decaying former metropolis. The video is a teaser for what looks to be a larger production and it certainly makes me want to find out more about Detroit (or even visit the city if I can in the future).

In Detroit Wildlife, the city is seen as an empty and haunting place filled with feral animals, homeless people, and abandoned buildings everywhere you look. It really reminded me of the movie I Am Legend where New York City starts being taken over by shrubbery and nature as human existence is gone. In a sense, the current state of Detroit is an urban explorers dream and part of the reason why I now want to visit the place before it falls any further into deprecation.

As I watched this documentary, I began to realize how something so tragic as the dead man frozen in ice could have happened in a place like Detroit. It doesn’t justify the act of leaving a body there for a month, but it does shine some light on the potential causes of why something like this would happen in Detroit.