What's wrong with having a few cities like this? If you had clean, organized cities through the country, life would be boring and the visuals would be monotonous.
Broken down buildings are history. A country should not be made up of suburban sameness, just like a mole on a models face enhances her beauty, enclaves of disorganisation can make the country as a whole more interesting and prettier.
Because real actual people are suffering in the city. Think of the poor who can't get out. Detroit schools are in serious trouble right now. Recently in the news they were taking donations for toilet paper. Apparently their EMS has trouble meeting demand because it's underfunded, and just about everything else about detroit is either underfunded or undermanned. Let's not forget about the crime and murders.
This. Detroit isn't a painting, it is an ongoing tragedy with many kids playing roles. When I was in my late teens, we used to go to parties and art shows in these abandoned buildings, even in that Packard plant.
Once Gil Hill (commissioner of Beverly Hills cop fame) and the police broke in our party with guns drawn. Before ticketing us (95% white kids from the suburbs) he berated us, and told us not to dance in his city. It was a very colorful tirade. He was in the wrong, but I now know where his anger was coming from. To us, Detroit was a cool industrial wasteland scene to party in. To him, it was a dysfunctional place where people struggle to live.
Broken down buildings are history. A country should not be made up of suburban sameness, just like a mole on a models face enhances her beauty, enclaves of disorganisation can make the country as a whole more interesting and prettier.