DETROIT POWER · BUILDING THE CITY

PLANNING & PUBLIC WORKS.

Government decisions altered the physical city through streets, expressways, public buildings, utilities, housing, redevelopment, transit, and other infrastructure.

CHANGING THE MAP

Public decisions became physical Detroit.

Roads, expressways, public buildings, housing programs and redevelopment plans altered how people moved through the city and which neighborhoods carried the cost of change. Planning history is therefore both a story of infrastructure and a story of consequences.

Street and expressway projects changed travel patterns and neighborhood connections.

Public buildings and civic projects concentrated government functions in particular places.

Housing and redevelopment decisions could remove or divide established communities.

Maps before and after a project often explain the change more clearly than a summary can.

SOURCE FIRST

Projects, dates, agencies, routes, and public decisions stay tied to verifiable plans and records.

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