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Originally Posted by fflint
I suppose I should go in and edit the data out of that 'Metro Detroit' Wikipedia entry. The numbers are not sourced and at odds with the main Detroit entry, which are sourced to the Census.
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Yes, that was rare, I din't understand what was happening, until I went tothe two links and realize were different entries with different numbers. I guess you are right, the "detroit" entry seems more reliable, although the links to the sources wont work anymore.
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Originally Posted by hudkina
The empty lands immediately surrounding downtown will be easy to redevelop once the Greater Downtown area achieves a certain level of success. They will likely be replaced by the type of development normally reserved for "greenfields" along the urban fringe of other metropolitan areas. They will also be home to the types of largescale parkland that was missing from much of the central city at its peak.
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Yes, it seems exactly what already happened in some redeveloped areas, they started from scratch, and wiped out almost everything that was there, including the street layout. Not much different to what happened in other cities when they did urban redevelopments with housing projects, only that this time instead of apartment blocks to lower classes by the public sector, they did predominatly suburban type developments to middle class by the private sector.
This is the Elmwood Park neighborhood, only about 1,5 kilometers east of downtown. in 1940 (from the aerial picture of monkey ronin) and in 2010. As you can see, practically the only things recognizable are Gratiot Ave, E Vernor Hwy, the train trench, the corner of Elmwood Cemetery and the building of the Bunche Elementary-Middle School (in the lower right corner) one of the few buildings that still remain.
The last image is the 2010 one with 1940 grid superimposed.