What the *#&! is Social Design?

In San Francisco? Check out the exhibit and report answers.

Forgotten Detroit

Yet another site with beautiful photographs of beautiful but decrepit buildings... ruins actually...

http://www.forgottendetroit.com/index.html

Bushvilles

Daily Kos reported on 'Bushvilles' recent development of shanty towns in the US which remind of the 'Hoovervilles' in the time of the Great Depression. Click here to see the YouTube film.

"A Strange, New American Dream"

The Detroit Unreal Estate Agency received a mention in the New York Times, in an op-ed piece about Design 99 and "the $100 houses" for sale in Detroit. The piece, authored by Toby Barlow, points out that Detroit is not simply a city in decline, but is, simultaneously, a "vast, enormous canvas where anything imaginable can be accomplished": the site for realizing "a strange, new American dream." We might want to discuss whether the opportunities in Detroit are, in fact, "limitless," but we can only celebrate Barlow's acknowledgement of the city's potentials.

Evil Twins

or how we're fooling ourselves to think we've reached the post-dialectical.
Gorgeous images by Camilo Jose Vergara. Check it out!

Detroit Story Blog

Here's a site full of Detroit stories, worth checking out -

http://www.detroitblog.org/