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Originally Posted by Crawford
2021 Highland Park is mostly urban prairie, and the residential stuff that survived tended to be the nicer, more spacious SFHs, so it looks more suburban than it once was.
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That makes sense. Highland park has lost a total of
83% of its peak population, set back in 1930, making it the biggest population loser in history of any US city that has ever crossed the 50K threshold.
But HP and Hamtramck still had a fairly large density gap back in the day, so maybe hamtramck's density was more consistent with a sea of non-stop 2-flats packed to the gills with polish immigrant families, whereas HP's density was more varied with larger scale multi-family in some areas and then more detached SFH in others (by and large the stuff that still remains)?