[Crawford]

This all implicitly assumes that relative distance means the same thing in all directions. The Detroit favored quarter is North and West so the sprawl is most intense in those directions. Ann Arbor has a Portland-style growth boundary so actually it's pretty rural between Detroit and AA.

There's no way in hell Toledo is part of Metro Detroit, especially bc Downriver has the least sprawl of any directional. Port Huron and Flint maybe, but that's really stretching the limits.