While spending part of my summer break away from the eurozone in downtown Detroit, I came across an old article by the Chilean-born writer and photographer Camilo José Vergara. In the mid-1990s he made what he called “an immodest proposal”: to turn a dozen city blocks of derelict pre-Depression skyscrapers into an “American Acropolis”.
今年夏季休假時,我離開歐元區,到底特律市中心住了一段時間。在那期間,我看到了出生于智利的作家兼攝影師卡米洛?何賽?貝爾加拉(Camilo José Vergara)寫的一篇舊文。上世紀90年代中期,他提出了他所謂的“一個自負的提議”:將建于大蕭條(Depression)之前、如今已被廢棄的12個摩天大樓街區變成一座“美國衛城”。
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