Detroit Photos - comparison

This kinda sums up the whole notion of "Urban Prairie". Click on the link and see.

DETROIT THEN AND NOW

If  you run the cursor over the image you'll see the aerial footage from 1949 and then the same aerial in the from 2003. Notice the difference? Where did all of these houses, and more importantly, the people who owned them, go? I know from visiting this neighbourhood that it's changed even more since.