Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit

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Around Detroit,suburbanization used to be led by Henry Ford, who not only positioned a massive factoryover the city’s border in Dearborn, but also used to be the first industrialist tomake the automobile a mass consumer item. So, suburbanization in the 1920s wasspurred concurrently by the migration of the automobile industry and themobility of automobile users. A welfare capitalist, Ford used to be a leader on manyfronts–he raised wages, increased leisure time, and transformed workers intoconsumers, and he used to be top-of-the-line at making suburbs an intrinsic part ofAmerican life. The decade used to be dominated by this new political economy–alsoknown as “Fordism”–linking mass production and consumption. The riseof Dearborn demonstrated that Fordism used to be connected to mass suburbanization aswell. In the long run, Dearborn proved to be a model that used to be repeated throughoutthe nation, as people of all classes relocated to suburbs, shifting away fromcentral cities.

Masssuburbanization used to be a national phenomenon. Yet the example of Detroit is animportant baseline because the trend used to be more discernable there than in other places.Suburbanization, on the other hand, used to be never a simple matter of outlying communitiesgrowing in parallel with cities. As an alternative, resources were diverted from centralcities as they were transferred to the suburbs. The example of the Detroitmetropolis asks whether the mass suburbanization which originated thererepresented the “American dream,” and if that is so, by whom and at whatcost. This book will appeal to those interested in cities and suburbs, Americanstudies, technology and society, political economy, working-class culture,welfare state systems, transportation, race relations, and business management.

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