Urban Dinosaurs: It's Time These 8 Things Went Extinct In Our Cities

[The North One]

Originally Posted by harryc

Michigan Ave - Dearborn Mi - a most surreal evening as I realized that the street was not abandonded, there was just NO entrance from the street for any of the businesses, the only entrances were from the parking lots one block on either side.

Not sure when or where you went but Dearborn and Michigan Ave has plenty of street fronting mixed use and retail you can enter from the front.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3062...7i16384!8i8192
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3226...7i16384!8i8192
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3051...7i16384!8i8192

[austin242]

Another. Gated Apartment Communities. They are absolutely terrible.

[JManc]

Originally Posted by austin242

Another. Gated Apartment Communities. They are absolutely terrible.

False sense of security but there has to be a reason why they keep doing it? Insurance rates/ requirements, codes, aesthetics, illusion of security?