Detroit
‘Today we’re going to achieve an important milestone in the comeback of Detroit,” said Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan on June 20, shortly before signing legislation that commits nearly $200 million in state funds to a bailout for the city that filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history last summer. The ceremony took place in the Globe Building, where Henry Ford once worked as an apprentice machinist — but which had fallen into such disrepair that it had become a showcase for the style of photography that turns visions of Detroit’s urban ruins into a neo-Gothic art form. Yet on this day, after a year of gutting and restoration, the Globe was bright and clean and smelling of drywall paste. “I picked this place,” said Snyder, a Republican, following the event. “I thought it was a great analogy.”
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