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”.
今年夏季休假时,我离开欧元区,到底特律市中心住了一段时间。在那期间,我看到了出生于智利的作家兼摄影师卡米洛•何赛•贝尔加拉(Camilo José Vergara)写的一篇旧文。上世纪90年代中期,他提出了他所谓的“一个自负的提议”:将建于大萧条(Depression)之前、如今已被废弃的12个摩天大楼街区变成一座“美国卫城”。
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