The constrast of this reminded me of my city and the “urban prairie”, where previously crowded, close-to-downtown urban neighborhoods began to be abandoned, where 16 houses stood before, now maybe two or three, and the lots around those get overgrown with grasses, leaving behind a typical city street grid, streets and infrastructure and tall wild grassy fields where the houses were.
I haven’t been to Detroit and though I’ve read of efforts ti clean up abandoned lots with decrepit housing, most of the abandoned lots and houses are left to succumb to natural deterioration or arson.