I have always thought LA and Detroit shared many similarities. When you're driving along one of the enormously wide avenues in South LA, it feels very similar to driving one of the big avenues in Detroit. It's flat as can be, streets are ridiculously wide and over sized, commercial buildings are limited to one or two stories and go on forever, and they're flanked with relatively dense detached housing.
Crenshaw- LA
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9807...7i13312!8i6656
Vermont- LA
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9602...7i16384!8i8192
Woodward- Detroit
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4058...7i16384!8i8192
Obviously the vegetation is different and LA has way more Spanish and Mediterranean Revival architecture. The mountains in the distance are obviously not present in Detroit, but both have large swaths of very flat land that has been developed similarly. I tend to think of LA being like a Detroit that just kept growing with more immigration.