Detroit is the county seat of Wayne County and the largest city in the state of Michigan, and serves as the business, financial and cultural hub of the southeastern part of the state. For decades, it has seen its population seemingly evaporate, indirectly caused by the riots of 1967, many years of racial tension and an over-reliance upon the automobile industry for employment.

 

And for many years, coverage of Detroit has mostly been regarded in terms of abandonments. But there are still 700,000 that live in the city – where do they live and work? On a recent snowy trip to Detroit, Ink and myself covered New Center, Barton-McFarland, Grand Meyer, Greenfield-Grand River, University District, Woodbridge and Palmer Park - essentially in one day.

 

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Palmer Park is a treasure.

Excellent! :-)

Love all the renovations in Palmer Park and the winter photos of Sherwood Forest look magical. 

 

The striking fact however is that the majority of those 700,000 residents you mentioned are clustered around the periphery...maybe with exception to Woodbridge.  That's going to be a very big challenge Detroit will face since non-linear, non-centralized density patterns are difficult to integrate in the current development trajectory.  What is planned and expected is a strong centralized core of businesses with radiating transit spokes.  What remains stable (as you see in this thread) is really the result of healthy suburbs and job centers outside the city...but accessible by freeways and wide avenues that connect these neighborhoods to the outside, rather than transit spines that benefit the central city (which is why core neighborhoods are so hard hit).