Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945

The book is devoted to industrialization of the United States and the Soviet Union. Drawing on previously unknown archival materials and photographs, the essays in “Detroit‑Moscow‑Detroit” document a stunning two‑way transfer of technical knowledge between the United States and the USSR that greatly influenced the built environment in both countries, upgrading each to major industrial power by the start of the Second World War. The innovative research presented here explores spatial development, manufacturing, mass production, and organizational planning across geopolitical lines to demonstrate that capitalist and communist built environments in the twentieth century were not diametrically opposed and were, on certain sites, coproduced in a period of intense technical exchange between the two world wars. A fresh account of the effects of industrialization and globalization on US and Soviet cultures, architecture, and urban history, “Detroit‑Moscow‑Detroit” will find wide readership among architects, urban designers, and scholars of architectural, urban, and twentieth‑century history.