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 differents

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.