General Motors / Chrysler Corporation / Hudson Motor Car Company / Ford / Chalmers Automobile Company / American Motor Body Company / Studebaker / /
Country
United States / /
Currency
USD / / /
Event
Company Expansion / M&A / /
Facility
Hudson’s plant / Plymouth Lynch Road Assembly Plant / Ford Piquette plant / Chrysler-Chalmers plant / Chrysler’s Jefferson North plant / Chrysler’s Conner Avenue plant / Cadillac Plant / Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Studebaker Plant / Jefferson Avenue South plant / Ford’s Piquette plant / Ten-Ton Truck plant / Piquette Plant / Truck Plant / ChryslerChalmers Plant / Packard factory / Cadillac Clark Street plant / The Chrysler-Chalmers plant / Half-Ton Truck plant / As Chalmers plant / Jefferson North plant / Chrysler-Chalmers complex / Chrysler Jefferson North plant / Fisher Body Plant / Packard Plant / Chrysler-Dodge Half-Ton Truck Plant / /
IndustryTerm
automotive manufacturing landscape / transportation / modest site / open site / insensitive infrastructure / manufacturing heritage / urban site / machinery / retail sectors / horizontally-integrated web / manufacturing landscape / historic automotive manufacturing facilities / technology park / structural systems / manufacturing jobs / manufacturing employment / auto manufacturing heritage / automotive manufacturing sites / automotive manufacturing purposes / automobile manufacturing / automotive manufacturing heritage / public relations showpiece / manufacturing decline / manufacturing / generous site / oil crises / steel / /
NaturalFeature
River Rouge / Detroit River / /
Organization
Daniel Campo Department of City / Brent D. Ryan Department of Urban Studies / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / City and Regional Planning School of Architecture / Michigan Supreme Court / /
Person
Christopher Silver / Brent D. Ryan / Laura Manville / Packard / Jefferson South / Lawrence Vale / Jefferson North / Albert Kahn / Karina Milchman / Erich Mendelsohn / Daniel Campo / / /
Position
architect / Modernist architect / /
ProvinceOrState
Michigan / /
Technology
production technologies / building technologies / /
Title: Autopia’s End: The decline and fall of Detroit’s automotive manufacturing landscape Authors: Brent D. Ryan Department of Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology