2024-12-30T22:43:06-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149982006/when-you-cut-funding-and-abandon-people-surprises-happen Julia Ingalls 2017-01-17T11:42:00-05:00 >2019-09-04T17:55:33-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/tf/tfcv4rx6s31qwjno.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Detroit, once one of the 20th century&rsquo;s top three thriving U.S. metropolises, has been a case study in ruin and decay for nearly half a century. &ldquo;<a href="http://amzn.to/2jje9tX" target="_blank">Detroit is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age</a>,&rdquo; a new book of photographs and nuanced essays by <a href="http://amzn.to/2jJojAv" target="_blank">Camilo Jose Vergara</a>, delves into this culture of ruin, offering architects and urban planners an intriguing (and often surprising) pictorial atlas of what happens to a civilization during uncivilized times.</p>