Article ID: CBB793055303

The Freeway Journey: Landscape and Mobility in the Southern Auto Industry (March 2021)

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The I-85 highway corridor through the American South has emerged as a key artery for the global auto industry over the last three decades. An influx of foreign capital has transformed the region into one of the world's prime automobile manufacturing hubs. The easy mobility offered by I-85 and its tributary networks has been central to the economic and social transformation of the region. However, there are distinct limits and costs to this transformation that are frequently downplayed in the name of a technologically utopian approach to development. The I-85 corridor has facilitated the development of the auto industry in the American South, but it has also contributed greatly to the increasing capitalist exploitation of its people.

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Authors & Contributors
Bradley, Ben
Baatarnaran Tsetsentsolmon
Andrey Vozyanov
Olga Povoroznyuk
Know, Hannah
Michal Ďurčo
Concepts
Land transportation
Infrastructure
Mobility
Roads and highways
Automobiles
Technology and society
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Romania
Palisades Park
Yugoslavia
Estonia
Peru
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