Introducing Detroit
Tell any American you’re planning to visit Detroit, then watch their eyebrows shoot up quizzically. ‘Why?’ they’ll ask, and warn you about the off-the-chart homicide rates, boarded-up buildings with trash swirling at their bases, and plummeting population (down from 1.8 million in 1950 to 886,000 today). ‘Detroit’s a crap-hole. You’ll get killed there.’
Clearly, the Motor City has an image problem. While the aforementioned attributes are true, and while the city does waft a sort of bombed-out early East Berlin vibe, it’s these same qualities that fuel a raw urban energy you won’t find anywhere else. And that manifests in the city’s arts and music scene. They shred a mean guitar in ‘the D.’ Very mean.
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Home of Motown is good Museum invoking many memories of youth, Hitsville.
- Peter Ptschelinzew
- Lonely Planet photographer
