Christian Golden

Christian Golden

Christian Golden recently graduated from the University of Vermont as a Geography major and Art History minor. He is back living in his hometown of Westford, Vermont with his parents. He plans to spend the summer working and relaxing the best he knows how, reading outside in the sunshine. The warmer months in Vermont are beautiful and offer many outdoor activities that he also plans to partake in.

Inside Michigan Central Station under construction, a decaying archway is featured behind construction tape, a sign that reads "Men Working Above," and a construction worker walking in front of the archway toward a construction machine.
no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 5

Detroit and the Glorification of the Past

Christian Golden compares the use of ruins in the documentary Detroit: Comeback City and the fiction film Gran Torino, arguing that ruins in these two films resonate with the city’s efforts to attract business and investment through imagining a nostalgic past that can be retrieved to renew Detroit’s future.