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Throughout the twentieth century, automobile manufacturing made and remade Detroit and Turin. Managerial choices about recruitment and plant location affected workers and their families in the first place. However, the cities’ entire social and economic structure was driven by the car industry as the prosperity of the urban commercial middle-classes and the solvability of the municipal governments were linked to the spending power of the industrial working-class and the tax revenue originating from car manufacturers. A large number of suppliers’ firms, small or medium in size, also relied on the presence of car manufacturing. The needs of the automobile industry figured prominently in the priorities of urban planning. As a result, the very spatial configuration of the Motor Cities resulted from or responded to the desiderata of the automobile manufacturers. Urban sprawl, overcrowding of working-class neighborhoods, and uneven standards of municipal services were the outcome of the periodic bouts of expansion of the car industry, which attracted flows of immigrants to the cities.
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