Posted September 4, 20177 yr Share your love for Detroit before racism, highways, elimination of transit, uncontrolled sprawl, corruption, automation, unfair trade practices, drugs, and crime destroyed it. Every planner needs to hang this on the office wall. + a reminder to car commuters in cities, who think their choice didn't come at a cost. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 4, 20177 yr I found this huge aerial of Wayne County on Reddit a couple of weeks ago, taken in 1949. It's amazing how vast Detroit is, and of course it's devastating to see the city just a couple of years before expressways started to rip through the heart of the city: http://gigapan.com/gigapans/147450 “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
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