Wow. Buildings lost to highways & parking lots in Detroit. 
If you like this Tweet, you'll like this thread. Former Detroit buildings that are now parking lots:
https://twitter.com/DE_Gifford/status/1316446894327988226
A big lesson here is what happens to a big city when it lacks a regional transit system. Detroit purchased the streetcar system from the private interurban system in 1922. We've been trying to build a regional transit system ever since. Meanwhile, downtown became a parking lot.
To make up for the depressing thread on buildings now parking lots, here are some of the many great restorations that have taken place in Detroit.
https://twitter.com/DE_Gifford/status/1316735903335940101
Red = surface lots
Orange = parking structures
Orange = parking structures
It is a trend repeated throughout the United States. iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/12/60y…
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