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Urban Shrinkage, Industrial Renewal and Automotive Plants

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Authors:
  1. Andreas Luescher

    1. College of Technology, Architecture and Applied Engineering, Department of Architecture and Environmental Design, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA

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  2. Sujata Shetty

    1. Jack Ford Urban Affairs Center, Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Toledo, Toledo, USA

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  • The book provides an opportunity to examine the consequences on individual communities of the profound changes in the global auto industry, especially as technology is set to transform our traditional forms of mobility

  • Using examples from the U.S. and Europe, this book broadens our understanding of how old industrial cities are dealing with the changing geography of auto production

  • The book examines the shifting relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, ranging from the design of the factory building to location considerations at the global scale

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty
    Pages 1-8

  3. Automotive Production and Its Relationship with the Built Environment

    • Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty
    Pages 9-23

  4. The Packard Plant as a Testament to Automotive Heritage

    • Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty
    Pages 25-47

  5. To Be or Not to Be an Autotown: Four Case Studies

    • Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty
    Pages 49-80

  6. Strategies to Address Decommissioned Automotive Plants

    • Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty
    Pages 81-100

  7. The Future of Automotive Plants

    • Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty
    Pages 101-116

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 117-118
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About this book

This book focuses on the relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, a topic of particular interest now as the industry is going through a period of major transformation.  Drawing from multiple perspectives, including architecture, urban design and urban planning, the authors examine the changing form of the auto factory itself, the changing geography of auto production, and the challenges faced by communities as the auto plants that once brought them prosperity, and often a sense of identity, leave town.  They examine four places that are dealing in different ways, and with varying success, with the aftermath of a decommissioned auto plant in their midst.  These are Janesville, Wisconsin, and Willow Run, Michigan, in the U.S., and Bochum, Germany, and Genk, Belgium, in Europe. Together these four cases provide some clues about what the future might look like for places that were once intimately connected with the manufacture of cars.



Authors and Affiliations

  • College of Technology, Architecture and Applied Engineering, Department of Architecture and Environmental Design, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA

    Andreas Luescher

  • Jack Ford Urban Affairs Center, Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Toledo, Toledo, USA

    Sujata Shetty

About the authors

Sujata Shetty is Interim Director of the Jack Ford Urban Affairs Center and a Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning, at the University of Toledo, Ohio.  She is trained as an architect and urban planner.  Her research explores the role of planning in under-resourced communities from multiple perspectives, including land use planning, urban design and community development, particularly in old industrial cities facing population loss.

Andreas Luescher is a Swiss architect, who is currently Professor and Chair of Architecture and Environmental Design at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His research is on design processes in architecture, design and urban design from an aesthetic, social, public policy, sustainability as well as visual culture perspective. He has written more than 80 papers for presentation at national and international conferences as well as for publication in leading international academic journals.





Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Urban Shrinkage, Industrial Renewal and Automotive Plants

  • Authors: Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03380-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03379-8Published: 21 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03380-4Published: 13 December 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 118

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Cultural Geography, Economic Geography

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