Detroit. Fisher Building. Thanks to all who replied. Lots of other cities that created great wealth and lost it because of not so great policy and too much government distorting their economies. Follow my Substack where I post uncomfortable urban issues.

@izurietavarea My first thought was Paris from the image, but the description doesn't fit.

@stevemouzon The Tour Montparnasse tried to destroy it but it prevailed. Hope Mrs. Hidalgo’s flirting with some greenwashed Modernist hype dilutes. It’s Detroit.

@izurietavarea Buenos Aires?

@CjgbVictoria Detroit. Not as hopeful of Baires’ future.

@izurietavarea @ad_mastro It's Detroit, isn't it?

@s_m_stofka @ad_mastro It is. Fisher Building.

@izurietavarea What's fiat urbanism?

@Eeeszy I realize I should not assume everyone knows that. Thanks for pointing it out. Overlaps with sprawl mainly. It’s urbanism created as a consequence of bad zoning, financed with (mostly unpauable) debt, unsustainable and focused on depreciation and fast sales above all.

@izurietavarea Culture rich & money poor parallels the well known rural money rich & land poor. A German tourist in Pavia complained the Italians didn't appreciate their architectural heritage because it wasn't maintained. Neither Rome nor the Renaissance left Negative-Entropy Maintenance Funds

@tomchristoffel Or it could have been neglected because it wasn’t appreciated. Chesterton used to say that “Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”

@izurietavarea Monocrop refers to only one industry? Cars? It qas the wealthiest in the world? Really? When?

@martinm_m I may have made that up. They had a very diverse orange and grapefruit industry. And puppets. They supplied puppets to all of France, exclusively. For a few centuries, actually. No, really, It was definitely a top center of wealth creation and innovation. One of the wealthiest.

@izurietavarea Can you explain "broken because of fiat urbanism"?

@bicycleriiights Fiat urbanism is loosely sprawl. Built by bad zoning, land uses without substance, financed on debt and focused on building depreciation and not on quality.

@izurietavarea Detroit for sure.

@sfsworms Manaus. Good choice. Rubber made it amazingly wealthy but no. Detroit. There may be some cross pollination with Ford and Firestone.

@izurietavarea That's the Fisher Building in Detroit. I'm proud to say I've been involved in one of the small efforts there. Hoping to share the plan soon

@izurietavarea Now thats a great pic. Favorite high-rise in America.