My apologies, I did not take the time to look at the numbers involved.
On Feb 27, 2014 5:52 PM, "Branstner, Mark C" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Unless Christchurch looks like Dresden, or perhaps Stalingrad during the
> summer of 1945, the comparison borders on the silly.  Detroit is a city of
> 143 square miles with literally tens of square miles of vacant and/or
> profound desolation. The population in 1950 was 1.85 million; in 2010, it
> was down by over one million, to 0.7 million. The scale of this
> devastation cannot be compared to anything that I am aware of in the
> Western world. And I really don't think that I am exaggerating.
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> On 2/26/14 10:36 PM, "Brenna" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >I think the scale and the nature of the resources makes the situation in
> >Detroit quite a bit different than Christchurch (though I'm sure there
> >are parallels which would be interesting to discuss).
> >
> >There are preservationists and archaeologists on the ground trying to
> >document what we can.
> >
> >The Michigan Historic Preservation Network has completed a very ambitious
> >mapping project:
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> http://nextcity.org/sharedcity/entry/why-preservationists-are-mapping-detr
> >oits-historic-layer
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> >And at Wayne State University we are working on a number of
> >archaeological projects, including the collections-based Unearthing
> >Detroit project, in an attempt to deepen our understanding of the city's
> >archaeological record:
> >https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=570898859653425
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> >Still, there is much work to be done!
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> >Sent from my iPhone
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> >> On Feb 26, 2014, at 10:15 PM, Katharine Watson
> >><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >> A bit like Christchurch, New Zealand, albeit for different reasons -
> >>and we
> >> are getting to record the pre-1900 buildings, and to look at the
> >> below-ground archaeology on pre-1900 sites.
> >> Cheers,
> >> Katharine
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> >>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:51 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >>> Wow, the amount of lost architecture history, not to mention
> >>>archaeology,
> >>> will be tremendous.  450 homes per week to be demolished.
> >>>
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> >>>
> http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20140226&id
> >>>=173
> >>> 87943
> >>> Mike Polk
> >>> Sagebrush Consultants, a wholly owned subsidiary of Commonwealth
> >>>Cultural
> >>> Resources Group,  Inc.
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> >> --
> >> Katharine Watson
> >> Underground Overground Archaeology Ltd
> >> P.O. Box 388
> >> Christchurch 8140
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> >> 027 656 3985
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> >> <https://www.facebook.com/UnderOverArch>
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