I never realized how beautiful my city really is. I’m sad to leave now, because Detroit really is amazing. I wish I could stay, buy up some old abandoned buildings of my own, and make some change. It’s not a bad place, it’s just hurt. And healing.

leftofsound:

I am ashamed to say that, even living in the Detroit area, I am unaware of most of the good things happening in this city.  Watching this makes me feel guilty for wanting to leave.

climateadaptation:

Johnny Knoxville visits destroyed Detroit to glorify (perhaps justify) the magic of gentrification.

stillmindstillcosmos:

Detroit Lives

The Motor City has been declared dead more times than Rasputin. But over the last few years, while The News Media (and Dutch tourists) were hemming and hawing over a few neglected streets that had started to look more like meadows, a bunch of creative badasses were quietly buying abandoned 9-story buildings, filling them with everyone they knew, and making Detroit actually pretty fucking incredible. Our old buddy Johnny Knoxville paid a visit to the D to explore for himself.

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