Jefferson Avenue, Detroit (Michigan)

Our niece Emily sent another great vintage postcard from Detroit where she’s living now. I suppose at the time of this printing (I think the date was torn off in transit, but maybe the 50s?), a huge, wide boulevard like this would have been attractive and indicative of a beautiful, robust city. Now, of course, we recognize that wide streets aren’t beautiful and don’t make a city desirable. The most desirable cities have narrow streets (and very few cars!). Detroit is undergoing a renaissance at the moment; I hope it thinks carefully about cars and their enormous appetite for ugly infrastructure.