Those are golden.

Just what Detroit needs...

Snoopy,
The sad thing is that, in Detroit, as well as many other places in America, those buildings would probably be razed and replaced, instead of renovated.
-Jut

Just like Cuba--most trendy types I know love how decrepit Havana is, and think it should stay that way.

I'd love to revisit all the places in East Germany 1983 that I took pictures of, now that many years have gone by, and hopefully things have gotten better...

Just what Detroit needs...

A tactical nuke?

What? when I do urban renewal, I think big.

And East Germany was the most prosperous & efficient Communist state.

This is still my favorite Communism vs Capitalism photo:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/21270

There's probably someone out there thinking "Wow, look at all the energy the North Koreans are saving!"

Off topic sort of, but can I just say I am sick and tired of haveing to click thru 37 pages to see the photos, and the 37 different top and side web based advertisments? Or news articles on the web spread across 7 different web pages?

I realise they probably make more money that way but I'm getting sick of it

"most trendy types I know love how decrepit Havana is, and think it should stay that way. "

That figures, doesn't it? The hipsters are more interested in having their fucking fashion playground than they are in the people who actually live there.

I don't question their patriotism. I diss it.

A short exchange re:Cuba from former resident Welch's old blog:

[…]But I'm hoping that times change when Fidel passes, so that his authoritarianism dies with him. If only the Cubans could get their money out of his Swiss accounts first....

I worry that when the Hiltons and Marriotts reopen in a few years, they'll get the worst of American sex tourism too.

Posted by Crid at September 21, 2004 04:01 PM

They already have the worst of Canadian and Italian and German sex tourism, that's for sure. What makes it even yuckier is that the state-owned hotels are filled with state-owned dollar stores filled with items that only 14-year-old Cuban girls could truly love....

Posted by Matt Welch at September 21, 2004 04:51 PM

Martin: and it's a crime to show anyone in North Korea that picture.

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This is still my favorite Communism vs Capitalism photo: -- Martin at March 9, 2012 10:33 AM

If we nuke them at night we just have to put an EO AGM-65 Maverick seeker head on the bomb. ;-)