{"id":1505,"date":"2014-06-27T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T09:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2014-06-27T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T09:45:31","slug":"7-photos-show-how-detroit-hollowed-out-during-the-highway-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"7 Photos Show How Detroit Hollowed Out During the Highway Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

While searching for images of highway interchanges in urban areas, I came across these historic aerial photos of Detroit on a\u00a0message board<\/a>, showing how the city fabric has slowly eroded. It\u2019s a remarkable record of a process that has scarred many other American cities.<\/p>\n

1949<\/strong>:\u00a0Here\u2019s what the east side of the city looked like right at the middle of the century, with Gratiot Avenue forming the diagonal. Detroit was a big, bustling city.<\/p>\n

\"1949\"<\/p>\n

1952:<\/strong>\u00a0Just a few years later though, urban renewal and other city-clearing initiatives were already leaving their mark.<\/p>\n

\"1952\"<\/p>\n

1961:<\/strong>\u00a0Almost a decade later, you can see a large space south of Gratiot had been cleared to make way for Lafayette Park, a neighborhood of high-rise residential towers.<\/p>\n

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\"1961\"<\/p>\n

1967:<\/strong>\u00a0By the mid-1960s, land was cleared and buildings destroyed to make way for Interstate 375.<\/p>\n

\"1967\"<\/p>\n

1981<\/strong>: The freeway is complete, along with a monster interchange. The tight network of small streets and small blocks has been replaced by mega blocks.<\/p>\n

\"1981\"<\/p>\n

1997:<\/strong>\u00a0By the turn of the century, the area is almost unrecognizable.<\/p>\n

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Finally, in this recent shot, you see that the new Tigers Stadium has entered the landscape, surrounded by a field of parking.<\/p>\n

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\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: USDA vis Google Earth<\/p>\n

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Can this process be reversed? Well, the city of Detroit is\u00a0considering the removal of I-375<\/a>, so there is hope.<\/p>\n

Thanks to user GSGeorge at the forum\u00a0AtDetroit.net<\/a>\u00a0for sharing the first five of these images. The originals up to 1997 \u2014 and other aerial photographs from all over the city \u2014 can be found in this\u00a0image repository<\/a>maintained by Wayne State University.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2014\/06\/24\/7-photos-show-how-detroit-hollowed-out-during-the-highway-age\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While searching for images of highway interchanges in urban areas, I came across these historic aerial photos of Detroit on a\u00a0message board, showing how the city fabric has slowly eroded. It\u2019s a remarkable record of a process that has scarred many other American cities. 1949:\u00a0Here\u2019s what the east side of the city looked like right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[153,214,215,181,213],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staliy-rozvitok","tag-vulitsi","tag-zabudova","tag-misto-dlya-avtomobiliv","tag-mistobuduvannya","tag-hayveyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}