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Originally Posted by Crawford
Detroit, like LA, is a product of the auto age. Both are (or, in the case of Detroit, were) decentralized cities characterized by long linear corridors of quasi-urban commercial density, bordered by suburbanish residential. They were quite similar at a neighborhood level when Detroit was intact.
Even today, the more intact Detroit corridors have an LA-ish hybrid urban-suburb feel, Clearly auto oriented, but parking in the rear and theoretical walkability. You don't really get this look in the NE Corridor or the older Midwestern cities:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4204...7i16384!8i8192 |
yeah i mean, take south central, or even lower beverly hills, strip away the vegetation and mediterranean fake-flare and you have almost an identical built environment with similar tree lawn and sidewalk dimensions, housing types. the divergence on the commercial corridors, massive later century apartment infill and replacement, owing to wealth shifts, demographics, etc has been stark of course, but it was them same bones.