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The view from the truck was unsettling, block after block of burnt-out buildings with paint curling off the walls.

The farther Mark Hollis drove, the worse it became. He was traveling northwest up Detroit’s Woodward Avenue, past abandoned homes with boarded windows — except that when you looked closely and saw a folding chair beside a front step, or a bag of garbage on the lawn, it became clear that people were still actually living in them.

“What a lot of people see here is despair,” Hollis said.

“But you have to take yourself back to the ’60s and ’70s and imagine what it used to be. And what it could be again.”

Hollis passed the husk of a CVS pharmacy, with dark stains where the logo used to be.

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One red-brick factory had a row of windows punched out. “That’s where Henry Ford designed the Model T,” Hollis said. He had been trying to make the building a museum or