Love the One You're With: Architecture and Urbanism in Detroit with Detroit News Writer, Michael Hodges March 10, 2010

Michael Hodges, the art writer at The Detroit News, has spent the last two years shooting Detroit in all its splendor and collapse for his architecture blog. Hear him focus on alternate ways of reading the city -- hitting Detroit's aesthetic high points without skirting the abandonment that characterizes so much of the cityscape. Hodges will review Detroit treasures that upstarts like Seattle would kill for, including the three great art-deco skyscrapers (Guardian, Penobscot, & Fisher). But he also makes an argument for learning to see the interest -- and even beauty -- in areas most people would call "depressing."

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