MAPS: How Detroit's Population Density Stacks Up Against 12 Cities Around The World
What kind of future do you want for the city of Detroit? That’s a complicated question, but one factor of many to consider is population density. When we talk about Detroit coming back, adding population, losing population — density is a key part of this equation as denser cities encourage use of mass transit vs. cars, for instance. It’s often the case that controversial urban planning debates boil down to density. In short, whether a neighborhood should become more dense or less. What happe...