[DOC] [TLE] Jeopary Question, WE'RE IN YOUR "DET" - TriviaBistro.com [PAR] Jeopardy Question: WE'RE IN YOUR "DET" - In 1995 Camilo Jose Vergara 
proposed making this city's abandoned skyscrapers a theme park. [DOC] [TLE] A Tribute To Ruin Irks Detroit - NYTimes.com [PAR] Camilo Jose Vergara called his idea an "immodest proposal," but around here 
they have much nastier ... skyscrapers in the core of Detroit's downtown: a ruins 
park. ... Published: December 10, 1995 ... After New York and Chicago, this city 
has the country's greatest collection of ... Abandoned buildings are being sealed 
off. [DOC] [TLE] Camilo Jos Vergara - Wikipedia [PAR] Camilo Jos Vergara (born 1944 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean-born, New York
-based writer, .... In 1995, Vergara made a controversial proposal that 12 square 
blocks of downtown Detroit be declared a "skyscraper ruins park," an "American 
acropolis," for the ... 1989, Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery. [DOC] [TLE] Camilo Jos Vergara Photographs - Library of Congress [PAR] An overview of Camilo Jos Vergara Photographs in the collections of the Prints 
... time and makes us look closely at how the urban decay of America's inner 
cities ... them by creating powerful murals and by adapting old buildings to new 
purposes. ... and the dramatic desolation and beauty of an almost-empty city at 
night. [DOC] [TLE] Past Exhibitions 1985-2002 - National Building Museum [PAR] Architects in the Making: Visions and Reality (January 1991  February 1991); 
Ideal ... Architecture in America's National Parks (December 1991  February 
1992) ... The New American Ghetto: Photographs by Camilo Jos Vergara (
January 26, ... Forgotten Gateway: The Abandoned Buildings of Ellis Island (
November 12,... [DOC] [TLE] Making Sense of Detroit - University of Michigan [PAR] This is the city that Vergara captures in his photo-essay: a city that looks like the 
set of ... Neither do I. But your proposal promises to give the "people of the inner 
city ... and this brings us to another frontier theme that runs through Detroit 
literature. ..... of Detroit's abandoned skyscrapers as a ruins park, an American 
Acropolis. [DOC] [TLE] Interviewing the Embodiment of Political Evil - Inter-Disciplinary.Net [PAR] Rhetoric of Ruins: Camilo Jos Vergara, Walter Benjamin, and the Politics ... So 
deeply does he admire his focal buildings that he hopes to mark off a section of... [DOC] [TLE] PDF (412 KB) - The University of Chicago Press: Journals [PAR] no one goes, abandoned experimental military testing grounds and missile ... 
wreckage of buildings left in the aftermath of the war, in imagery reminiscent of ... 
In photographing junk and wrecked cars, Evans initiated a theme that would ..... 
12 Camilo Jos Vergara, American Ruins (New York: Monacelli Press, 1999), 
206. [DOC] [TLE] Detroit's amazing transformation captured on camera after it loses ... [PAR] Oct 1, 2012 ... Detroit was once America's fourth largest city and the thriving hub of car industry 
... city taken over 25 years by photographer Camilo Jos Vergara. ... crumbling 
industries and homes and buildings abandoned. ... Rural life in the city: Rosa 
Parks Boulevard, pictured in 1987, shows one of .... Choose a theme. [DOC] [TLE] SHAPING THE FUTURES FOR INDUSTRIAL CITIES IN DECAY ... [PAR] centuries are becoming derelict; a cluster of semi-abandoned structures rises ... 
Abril, 1995. p. ... Camilo Jose Vergara's proposal confronts these two concepts: 
ruin and ... to solve urban decay through the transformation of a city into a theme 
 park ... Urban decay makes labor memory retrieval a much more urgent issue. [DOC] [TLE] The Buffalo Commons as Regional Metaphor and Geographic Method [PAR] Thus we urge geographers to make more use of regional metaphor. .... We spoke 
in college classrooms, high school auditoriums, civic centers, cafes, parks, and 
barns. ..... as shown by their gap-toothed blocks and deserted buildings, whether 
empty ... In 1995 New York City author and photographer Camilo Jose Vergara... [DOC] [TLE] public

Question: In 1995 Camilo Jose Vergara proposed making this city's abandoned skyscrapers a theme park
Answer: Detroit