Detroit was never all that dense, on the east side most of the housing built around City Airport & all the way to 8 mile city limits is, in its architecture[[not talking about current neglect & blight) almost indistinguishable from inner-ring suburbs being that its detached single family housing, driveway, garage & decent sized lawn [[basically everything north of Conner) & on the far north west side it resembles the housing of the outer suburbs built in 1950's-1970's. it's a far cry from New York or Chicago both where I lived but grew up in Detroit proper & old neighborhood is currently considered worst zip code in the US but living there from birth in 1978-1995 it was nothing more than a suburban neighborhood working class majority white hood nothing like Brooklyn or Chicago's working class ethic white areas which are intensely dense. Put it this way, most of what's left of Detroit housing has at least 10 feet of space between homes & those homes are single family so even at full capacity not considered dense unless someone was from a rural or far flung suburban area.