Detroit Aerial 1997 or How I Learned to Stop Urbaning and Love the Parking Lot

[southen]

i guess i may have a different view if i had memories. looking at that aerial footage it absolutely dwarfs everything near it. i guess it may not have felt that way from the ground.

[EastsideAl]

i guess i may have a different view if i had memories. looking at that aerial footage it absolutely dwarfs everything near it. i guess it may not have felt that way from the ground.

Yes, but that's in large part because that aerial view was taken after so many nearby large buildings had already been taken down. City Hall, the Kern Block, the Monroe Block, the Cadillac Square Building, and both Crowley's buildings were gone by then, greatly enlarging the "hole" in the middle of downtown. If you look at, say, the DTE aerial shots from the early '50s you will get a much better view of Hudson's in its true urban context.