The Ruins of Detroit

On the heels of 100 Abandoned Houses, more like it... but bigger. The website of Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography presents a gallery titled The ruins of Detroit:

At the beginning of the 20th Century, the city of Detroit developed rapidly thanks to the automobile industry and until the 50's, its population rose to almost 2 million people. At this time, it was the 4th most important city in the United States. During the 60's, deindustrialization and violent riots caused a large migration of the middle-class people outside the metropolis area. Then until the end of the 90's, "Motor City" lost more than half of its population. Today, despite a beginning of revitalization, a lot of the luxuous hotels, theaters, apartments, stores and office buildings built in the prosperous era remain vacant.