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THE STREETS

A City in Motion

Streetcars, automobiles, bridges, traffic, storefronts and the expanding geography of the Motor City.

Second Avenue traffic at 5:30 p.m. in Detroit, July 1942
DETROIT CONTEXT

Reading Detroit in motion.

Streetcars, automobiles, bridges, traffic, and commercial streets are treated here as the moving framework of the city.

Street names, major corridors, transit routes and neighborhood boundaries matter because police work happened in motion. Geography determines what was nearby, which precinct served an area and how people moved through the city.

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