DETROIT DETROIT No technology has had a greater

DETROIT

DETROIT No technology has had a greater impact on American everyday life than the automobile. where they live, how they work, how they travel, what there landscape looks like, the environment, have all been profoundly shaped by the car. And no place better demonstrates the social, economic, geographic, and political changes bought by the automobile industry than Detroit, the Motor city. the auto industry took off. By the Great Depression, car manufacturing completely dwarfed manufacturing concerns in Detroit. And so many more of the city's companies were somehow related to the auto industry, from machine tool manufacturers to auto supply companies to parts suppliers.

DETROIT • The city underwent its most rapid growth in the 1920 s when automobile production skyrocketed. By 1930, Detroit's population had expanded to almost 1. 6 million, making it the fourth largest city in the United States. Although auto production and population growth slowed during the Great Depression, the city continued to be a magnet for newcomers until the early 1950 s, when the city's population peaked at nearly two million.

DETROIT • New expressways accelerated the process of suburbanization detroit. New housing developments for workers sprung up virtually overnight in what had been rural areas on the outskirts of the metropolis. People spent more and more time in their cars. The landscape of the metropolitan area reflected the new dependence on the car. New auto plants, office parks, and shopping centers, were now surrounded by acres of parking lots to accommodate commuters from all corners of detroit. At major intersections and at highway exit ramps gas stations, car dealerships and repair shops, fast food restaurants, drive-ins, shopping centers and strip malls sprung up to cater to automobile users

DETROIT • Many companies and factories began to shut down because of the big three factories. ford, general motors and chrysler. Eventually all of the factories and manufacturs began to move away from downtown detroit and to the deep outskirts of the city leaving giant barron rundown factories all over town. The big three manafacturers began cutting down on workers by beginning to use more robotic practises when making there cars, resulting in many strikes and many families without and income and having to leave the city. This had a domino effect on many of the other small shops in the city, who catered for the tones of workers and now with no workers at the factories no customers for their shops

DETROIT • In the 1950 at the height of the automotive industry detroit had 1. 8 million people living in its city, since then because of the movement of factories and the less labour practises of factories detroit now in 2015 has just under 700, 000 people living there, all because of urban decay left by the abondened homes and factories. The popultion in detroit is stedying and the clean up is on the way to get rid of all those abandones factories and homes and to make detroit back into the great city it once was