Two (former?) centers of the automobile industry which were at the center of the local economies and then began to decline, to different degree and in deifferents ways,

at times violently, as in Detroit. Recent efforts at bringing new life to them is still a work in progress. Despite their obvious differences, they share sometimes uncanny

similarities, in their being centers of modernisation in the arts and culture, and in architecture,presented here through four projects: motown, palimpsests, driving Detroit

and Torino.

This last one is a work in progress.