Metro Detroit is the clearest articulation of Fordism and Post-Fordism management practices on economic and social landscapes. Urban structures and corporate management practices are not mutually exclusive entities. In contemporary consumerist culture, whole cities are products to be marketed, sold, consumed and eventually thrown out. As this consumerist culture exports itself as globalization, Detroit will be replayed time and time again unless a change in corporate management practices are made – an era after Fordism and Post-Fordism. I will first explain, in greater detail, why Detroit is the best representative of Fordist and Post-Fordist management practices and their effects on the American metropolis. Then I will explain the concept of Fordism, how it morphed into post-Fordism/Globalization/Neoliberalism and why post-Fordism fails to rectify Fordism’s shortcomings. Finally, I will discuss solutions to the current state of the Neoliberal, Post-Fordist conception of capitalism and explain how they are being realized, or unrealized in Detroit
