The rise and fall of the auto industry in Detriot, MI (USA)
There is no city in the whole world which was so powerfully influential to the automobile world than Detroit, Michigan. Detroit was a city without a specialization till the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1900, Detroit’s population was 285000 and was only the thirteenth largest city of the US. It was something like a Jack-of-all-trades city at the end of the 19th century, with its people being engaged in industries as diverse as tobacco products, food manufacture, drugs and chemicals, stove manufacture, ore processing and food production. There has never been another city to command the world of automobiles as ...
