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This chapter outlines the development of the Fordist model at the beginning of the last century and its role in shaping the urban landscape. We first highlight the influence of the automobile on the form of the American city. We then briefly describe the evolution of the auto industry itself, setting the stage to examine the relationship between automotive production and the built environment in subsequent chapters. We summarize the contents of the five chapters that follow, which, taken together, tell the interlocking stories of the automobile and the built environment at multiple scales.
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Luescher, A., Shetty, S. (2019). Introduction. In: Urban Shrinkage, Industrial Renewal and Automotive Plants. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03380-4_1
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