Renaissance

Watch a 1965 Video Explaining How Detroit Got its Street Grid

June 20, 2016, 12:53 PM

For someone driving around town, Detroit can be a confusing mosaic of streets.

But Mark Byrnes of the Atlantic's Street lab has unearthed a 1965 video,  just over15 minutes long, that explains the patterns and the history.

The film is called "Detroit’s Pattern of Growth," and was produced by Robert Goodman and Gordon Draper of Wayne State University,


Read more:  The Atlantic


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