By Jennifer Karmon, Yahoo Homes

The bare truth of Detroit's deterioration is captured by perhaps the most unsentimental chronicler you can imagine: the Google Street View car. Click here to read more about Alex Alsup's Tumblr effort to point that camera's unflinching gaze at an American disaster.

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