Map: Detroit’s Black Bottom and Expressway Development

CityLab had an excellent feature on “Where Highways Tore Through Black Communities.” Detroit was highlighted in the article, but no in-depth discussion. The current plans to make I-375 a surface street have brought renewed calls to bring back some of the historically significant urban fabric that used to exist.

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