DESOLATION ROW

摘要

Chrysler Corporation's recent "Made in Detroit" advertisement campaign is both a nostalgic appeal to the patriotism of American buyers and a feeble attempt to restore the image of Motor City, the birthplace of the automobile industry. In recent years, Detroit has been the subject of multiple books and exhibitions sensationalising the ruins of its former majesty, as it declined from being the country's fifth largest city to a battered shell of its former self.