Description
The book focuses on decommissioned automotive plants and the challenges cities and towns are facing to successfully transform these enormous urban structures into new uses. The book discusses not just the physical transformation, but also the role of government and other institutions, such as universities, businesses, and community organizations in the future of shaping these abandoned plants. With a focus on plants located in old industrial regions, the book contributes to current planning and design approaches for closed plants within the context of urban shrinkage. It adds to a limited body of knowledge on the historical, political, economic and social processes by which the future of decommissioned automotive plants is decided. Sujata Shetty, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA. Andreas Luescher, Ph.D. Professor, Interim Chair and Graduate Coordinator Department of Architecture and Environmental Design College of Technology, Architecture and Applied Engineering, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA. 1. Automotive Production and its Relationship with the Built Environment.- 2. The Packard Plant a Failed American Model of Transformation.- 3: Strategies to Address Decommissioned Automotive Plants.- 4: Examining Transitions in Four Case Studies.- 5: The Future of Automotive Plants.
