With the exception of well-defined neighborhoods that are physically different from, or separated from, nearby neighborhoods [[Indian Village, Palmer Woods), those that were once separate cities [[Delray, "old" Redford), and perhaps some older ethnic/racial enclaves [[Corktown, Paradise Valley), neighborhood names have rarely been used for much of the City of Detroit. As casscorridor describes, most Detroiters just identified where they lived [[or "stayed") by nearby major cross-streets.

Part of the reason for this is that the city grew in the 20th century in 2 huge booms that covered over what had been for the most part rather thinly settled rural land. The first came in the original auto boom of the 1910s and 20s when most of the central city was built out from the historical core [[roughly the area inside Grand Blvd.) very quickly, and the second came during and just after WWII when the city was swiftly built out to its current borders, and began to spread out into the suburbs.

A lot of the names you see for city neighborhoods today really came into use relatively recently, with the increased neighborhood organization of the 1960s and/or the city planning and "urban renewal" work of the 1950s and 60s. For instance, "Cass Corridor" itself is a name that came from the city planning for the eventual make-over of that area [[which never came). Back when my parents lived there in the '50s where one lived was just named by whatever was nearby [["near Cass Park" or "near Convention Hall" or "near the Library"). "Midtown" is an even newer name for that area that just came into use in the last few years.