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Originally Posted by iheartthed
It depends on the era. The really old places like Detroit were retrofitted with wide avenues and streets by demolishing a bunch of buildings. That's why you have scenes like this, where the architectural style and era on one side of the street doesn't match the other side: https://goo.gl/maps/KREF4qqLcnweRbLZA
The same thing here, which is directly across from the Renaissance Center: https://goo.gl/maps/nDN4S9mXf2BSZ2KL8 |
That happened everywhere in this country. Maybe it happened to a greater extent in places like Detroit, but literally every city tore down buildings to expand their road networks. If the overall development pattern is tight and dense (I guess proxies we're using for "European" in this discussion, along with old), the streets that were widened would stand out in contrast to the rest of the neighborhood.
See Liberty Street in Over the Rhine, for example.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1129...7i16384!8i8192
It's a big, wide, unsightly street that was carved into the middle of the neighborhood. It stands in marked contrast to the tight streets of the remainder of the neighborhood:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1104...7i16384!8i8192