Vice Magazine is back: Says the story of Detroit is found in the people

Last time Vice Magazine was here one of their reporters discovered that you can crop things out of photographs to make it look different. This time around, well, it's a little more thoughtful.

Excerpt from Vice Magazine:

The fact of the matter is that Detroit is pretty fucked in a lot of ways. The city that so successfully realized the 1950s American Dream is now a visual testament to its grandiose demise. But is that really news? We like to think that the story is better told by identifying those who remain in Detroit and those who are moving back precisely because it is fucked. The city has become a place where enterprising classes can find the space and time to do whatever they want, cheaply and hassle-free. It's a raw space where they can create community and start rebuilding their city from the inside out. The people we talked to were all eager to discuss the reasons they love Detroit, and, as importantly, what their vision is for it. Everyone is doing something—making music, buying and developing land, building businesses, and laying the foundation for a new Detroit with a creative scene that reminded us (the Euros among us, anyway) of East Berlin after the Wall came down. What we found there is a DIY paradise where people hustle to survive and use an anarchic sense of creativity to make shit happen.

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