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As far as its architecture is concerned the Motor City is largely a city of voids. From 1980-2000 the city issued 108246 residential demolition permits and by contrast only 9504 building permits. A drive through downtown showcases an urban landscape with a striking number of empty burned-out buildings and abandoned storefronts. (There are so many abandoned storefronts that the city government commissioned local architectural firms to design exhibits to fill them for February’s Super Bowl.) Out of the 374 U.S. cities with shrinking populations, Detroit ranks 27th on the list. The city loses 8.1 people per hour. Pitera also notes that 300 graves per year are moved to the suburbs. “Besides the living the dead are leaving too” Pitera said. “People in the suburbs are afraid to visit their loved ones in the city.”

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