Southfield trying to become a mini-city like those on Woodward.

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Warren isn't dense, but the residential areas of River Rouge and Ecorse are/were pretty packed, with all kinds of businesses fronting on Jefferson, Southfield, and Coolidge. There aren't driveways, everyone has an alley, and yards are small to nonexistent. Pretty typical for urban 1920s America outside of the coasts. If you want to see what a typical working class Detroit neighborhood was like, River Rouge and Ecorse are it.[/COLOR]

Wyandotte, where I am currently, has a pretty similar atmosphere, plus, after Detroit, it's the oldest incorporated city in Wayne County. Sure, the western half has hundreds of postwar homes thrown in, though. The high school has similar architecture to Detroit's older [[and remaining) high schools, as do a couple of elementary schools. In addition, most of the types of businesses you would find in any American town just before the Great Depression began can still be found along Biddle, Eureka, Ford [[Northline) and Fort Street [[although the latter mostly wasn't populated until the postwar years). In fact, the home I'm currently in was built the same year the Depression began and still has a back alley and no driveway, even today.