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(8-9): <\/p>\n \u201cCities thrive when they have many small firms and skilled citizens. Detroit was once a buzzing beehive of small-scale interconnected inventors \u2013 Henry Ford was just one among many gift entrepreneurs. But the extravagant success of Ford\u2019s big idea destroyed that older, more innovative city. Detroit\u2019s twentieth-century grown brought hundreds of thousands of less-well-educated workers to vast factories, which became fortresses apart from the city and the world. While industrial diversity, entrepreneurship, and education lead to innovation, the Detroit model led to urban decline.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The auto industry was the secret to Detroit\u2019s success. Its \u201cFordist\u201d model of industrialization was also the cause of Detroit\u2019s decline, according to Edward Glaeser\u2019s Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier (8-9): \u201cCities thrive when they have many small firms and skilled citizens. Detroit was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"yoast_head":"\n
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