A couple guys are highlighting abandoned houses in Detroit by spraying one with water and photographing the ice enshrouded result. Then they will chip away the ice and deconstruct the house, salvaging all they can, and turn the lot over to an urban farm cooperative. They're also involved in such neat things as sidewalk soup kitchens.
In this posting from last September the ice house guys have a couple aerial shots of Detroit, one from 1949, the other from 1967. They have set them up to alternate with satellite photos of the area today. It's amazing to watch the houses disappear. Even so, there are thousands of abandoned houses in Detroit and the city manages to raze about 100 a year.
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