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Old Posted Apr 28, 2021, 7:24 PM
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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV View Post
I imagine you can get a good sense of what it might look like today by venturing a much shorter distance:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wi...!4d-83.0363633

(not to say Windsor has not made any planning mistakes... but compared to Detroit it's night and day).
Better yet, head to Hamtramck, an enclave within Detroit that never suffered from abandonment. It's a separate municipality that was kept intact via South Boston-level racism in the postwar years, and, more recently, Muslim immigrants. The whole East Side of Detroit more or less looked like this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3961...7i16384!8i8192

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3960...7i16384!8i8192
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