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Originally Posted by Chicago103
A neighborhoods composed almost entirely of single family detached houses (like mine) can have 10,000 people per square mile easily and thus it is laughable to consider 700 per square mile urban, that is textbook exurban. Oddly enough though eliminate that farmland, make the streets more grid pattern and the houses smaller and it doesn't look all that different from the bombed out neighborhoods of Detroit. I think in much of metro Detroit urbanism is almost like a dead religion, there is some ancestoral memory of urban living but the average person has little to no frame of proper reference.
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Detroit actually still has a lot of dense 10,000+ ppsm census tracts, but the problem is that they are not contiguous. If the city of Detroit could cull out those de-populated tracts then the overall population density would probably bounce up somewhere close to 10,000 ppsm. Obviously, that is impossible considering the patchwork of populated tracts versus de-populated tracts shown on the map below... Along with the unfortunate circumstance of having much of the de-population center around the core of the city:
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http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2...or-rail-first/