Quote Originally Posted by Detroitnerd View Post
Nonsense. Maybe if you cherry-pick some statistics you can make an argumentbut Birmingham and Royal Oak are originally streetcar suburbs, formed around light rail, which meant the zoning of the time allowed for a strip of stores and homes set back on not-terribly-huge lots a good walking distance away. You'll find a premium on homes on the west side of Woodward, as people are willing to pay to be within walking distance of a strip of shops and a movie theater.
This describes maybe 10% of Birmingham and Royal Oak. 13&Crooks looks the exact same as Allen Park.

The vast bulk of both communities consists of post-WWII growth, same as Allen Park. They have the exact same density as Allen Park. I live five blocks from Woodward, and the oldest homes on my block are all postwar.

Really the only Birmingham neighborhood where you'll find more than a handful of pre WWII homes is Poppleton Park. And in RO, practically everything north of 12 Mile is postwar.