[Remisc]

I've traveled all over the Midwest, and I have yet to find another city like Mount Clemens, Michigan. Its a fairly small city, and it has all the elements of a larger city. It features a well-established downtown with high rise buildings, and has all the neighborhoods most large cities offer:

A wealthy, white neighborhood (Belleview and 2 blocks up)
A working class black neighborhood (Near Shadyside Park)
A working class white neighborhood (near Mount Clemens General Hospital)
A lower income mixed race neighborhhod: (Between SB Gratiot and NorthAve)
A middle class mixed race area (off of NB Gratiot, off Crocker)
Middle class white area (off of Cass, between Cass and Robertson)
A majority black, blighted area (NW Mount Clemens, behind Leslie's Tire)

My point is, it's simply a scaled down version of a much larger city. Are there any other cities like this? How did this happen without flourishing into a larger city?

[Remisc]

I'm sorry, it's NE Mount Clemens, not NW Mount Clemens

[rlohiya]

Hi,

I was wondering what sort of neighborhood Gibbs St in Mt Clemens is.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Regards,

[Retroit]

Ypsilanti is similar in the variety of neighborhoods and varying levels of segregation and integration. Pontiac too, maybe less so (only been there a couple times). I think it has to do with the age of the city, or more specifically that these cities were established before they were encompassed by the metro Detroit sprawl. So they developed as cities unto themselves with the strata of neighborhoods of varying income levels, yet they were able to draw black residents of Detroit, which a similar small city far away from a metropolis is unable to do.

Also, they didn't flourish into a larger city because a larger city (Detroit) already provided that function.