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Looking out over a span of collapsed roof at the abandoned Packard Automotive Plant in Detroit.

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In the foreground, the black tar of the roof of the factory. A few feet away a massive section has collapsed onto the floor below, leaving broken columns and rubble with plants growing out of them. Fluted concrete columns remain standing. In the distance a water tower and more factory buildings are visible.

The Abandoned Packard Motor Car Company: Detroit's Grandest Ruins

Reputed to the the largest abandoned site in North America, Packard has perhaps been hit harder by arson, scrappers, and vandals than any other abandoned site as well. By Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America.
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Abandoned America
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The sale on signed copies of my first book "Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences" is almost over! Packard is a chapter and you also get a free 5x7 print, so it's a pretty solid deal. Here's the link if you're interested: dismantlingthedream.com/produc…

Signed Copy of "Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences" Book + 5x7 Print | dismantlingthedream

Signed by the author, this copy of Matthew Christopher's first book, Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences comes with a free 5x7 of the author's choice and maybe a few other Abandoned America goodies too.
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Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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What is amazing is that it's been almost a hundred years and the majority of the Packard plant remained standing until the recent demolitions despite over 60 years of no maintenance. Talk about overbuilt. Industrial-era America knew how to build things. Information-era America... not so much, we buy most of our stuff from other places now.
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Katja
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Whoa—was just thinking about Detroit (& Gary, IN) in particular, after reading an #article in the NY Review of #Books (1/19/23), where Colin Thubron asserts "A ruin arouses pleasure only long after the tragedy of its cause has faded." I'm prone to thinking much of the Rust Belt's (US's et al's) ruin-causes are still very much gnawing their way thru the social fabric—such a mixture of motives keeps us coming back to (contemporary) sites (& hence, so much good work about them).
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