[lbo-talk] Jacobin magazine - issue one released

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 17 07:50:31 PDT 2010


Detroit Abandoned by Matt Figler, October — November 2010

^^^^ CB: And you got photo's of Detroit. (smile)

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"...helpless nostalgia fills the air. "

^^^^^^ CB: Well, not exactly. I guess for a photographer visiting from NYC (smile). Better said "nostalgia fills his mind".

^^^^^ How can you even start to revitalize a place where there isn’t even enough money to tear down the foreclosed, abandoned, and destroyed properties? Perhaps a tourism model based on urban exploration or maybe, full use of the city as a post-apocalyptic Hollywood movie set? ^^^^^ CB: Actually, this was done in the obverse . Detroit is the setting for "Robocop".

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True enough the second option is not too far off; Detroit has some of the highest motion picture tax incentives of any place in the U.S.

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