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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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.
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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