An Intimate Look at the Streets of Detroit

23 January 2008 - 8:00am

This series from The Detroit Free Press looks at the state of the city that is both struggling and succeeding.

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"Starting in late May and finishing in late September, I drove all of the city's 2,100 or so streets -- from 7 Mile Road, which is 261 blocks long, to Detroit Street, which is only one.

The idea was to get a unique view of Detroit, a short-term, street-level survey of Detroit's 138 square miles, a once-in-a-lifetime snapshot of the city Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and others insist is coming back.

From downtown -- where the comeback is evident -- through the immense territory of Detroit's neighborhoods -- where the future seems less certain -- the trip was never boring."

Source: The Detroit Free Press, Jan 22, 2008