Broadcast history

BBC Radio 4

Unbuilding Detroit

7 June 2011
Produced by Eleanor McDowall

Producer, Eleanor McDowall Unbuilding Detroit examines the extraordinary transformation of abandoned architecture into artwork by Detroit residents.

To see more photos from production please visit the Falling Tree Flickr page here: www.flickr.com/photos/fallingtreeproductions

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Press

"“Watch your step,” says the first voice you hear in this remarkable documentary feature by Eleanor [McDowall] ... The city is not dead but there’s a reason why it stopped being a place where “the American dream” could come true. Here are fresh and practical ideas on what to do with what’s left."

Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph, 7.06.11


"
This was an engrossing programme, told only in the words and sounds from Detroit's streets, about the unpredictable life cycles of even hard-pressed cities."

Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 8.06.11

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