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Detroit is 22nd most populous city in the US and the largest city in the state of Michigan. It has been struggling with economic challenges since 1960s
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Detroit is famous as the Motor City because of it being the cradle of assembly line production for automobiles. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler started here
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Ford River Rouge complex was the largest factory in the world by the time of its completion in 1928. The giant two red factories produce steel. The automobile production takes place in the buildings in the background
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Industrial suburbs of Detroit are what used to power this city. Today, business has changed, resulting in less jobs required inside Detroit. In particular, the car manufacturing has been diversified by moving production to other facilities
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Sunrise over Dearborne, a well-off suburb of Detroit. Where there are jobs, the neighborhoods around Detroit look safe and clean, just like anywhere else in the US
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Father and son business occupies the last remaining building on the block
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Entertainment venues have closed as people moved out of the city
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Detroit's nick name - Motor City - holds still, as three largest US car manufacturing facilities are located here, and the global HQ of General Motors.
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Inside the General Motors Headquarters
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Labor Movement Monument commemorates the role of trade unions in Detroit's history. As the birth cradle of modern conveyor belt production system, Detroit has shaped and been shaped by the relations between the industrialists and the trade unions
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The border crossing to Canada is the busiest in the northern US and accounts for 25% of trade volume between these two countries
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Detroit has gone many ways to improve the local economy. Among other attempts, the city invested into the elevated monorail. It is not widely used due to missing links to suburbs where the majority of people live
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Detroit is infamous for housing decay. There are currently more houses for sale than buyers on the market. A house that used to stand here, before it collapsed, cost just a few thousand dollars.
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Abandoned homes make neighborhoods around them insecure. No-one's wooden houses often shelter drug addicts or fall victim to fire. An alternative to demolishing empty houses is to convert them to art objects, like this house here.
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Shopping mall, Detroit
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Average family income in Detroit is lower than in many countries around the world. Some survive by growing their own vegetables
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A typical street in Detroit. Empty spaces are where houses were demolished
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Detroit claims to be the most bike-friendly city in the US. The wide roads are not so crowded since the population density fell by 2/3 of its high number in the 1950s
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An abandoned house is an often scene in Detroit. However, not so much after the municipal government launched compaign to demolish empty houses back in 2013
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Some neighborhoods are doing better, but some are seriously in decay. The infamous abandoned Detroit railway station can be seen in the background
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The most striking example of urban decay. A former theater has been converted into a partking lot
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Downtown Detroit features perals of 1920s Art-Deco architecture
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The roads in Detroit are one of the worst in the whole US. Many of them are filled with pots and stitches, desperately in need of repair.
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There used to be a house here. The municipality has worked hard in the last few years to remove abandoned houses. Some local initiaitives create parks or children's playgrounds on the freed land, unlike here.
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The food court at Renaissance Center is unsually empty on the weekend. Almost 80 thousand people work in downtown Detroit, but on the weekends its streets are dead empty
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Street artists and the ones who aspire to become such, have all the freedom in the world to paint the empty walls into multicolored manifests. The usual subjects are inequality, corruption and security
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You see a colorful graffiti and you don't ask yourself: what's inside this building? Is it safe? Graffitis decorate the city and give it a feel of better security
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The multitude of graffiti styles in Detroit fascinates! This wall has been seen in Woodbridge neighborhood
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Detroit has tried various strategies to revive its struggling economy. The local community of Woodbridge decided to go with the tourists. The neighborhood is famous for intact mansions in Victorian and French chateau styles
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Main alley of Mexicantown looks livid and optimistic. It is an example of a vibrant community many other neighborhoods around Detroit hope to replicate
