Publication

2019 - Actar Publishers, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

120,000 words, Guess

Page Count

480 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101948765144
  • ISBN-139781948765145
  • OCLC Control Number1125349221
  • Better World Books9781948765145
  • Open LibraryOL44017824M

Classifications

  • DDC725/.4
  • LCCNA6400 .R37 2019
  • LCCNA6400.R37 2019

Description

This book focuses on the spaces of production in cities that both comprise factories that are significant in their design and contribute to a vital urban environment. This book re-examines the historic modernist and contemporary factories through the lens of an urbanist while provoking the future of urban manufacturing. It shows that now factories are cleaner and greener and they can be reintegrated in city life creating a new paradigm for sustainable urban industry that is also more self-sufficient. Illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs and manufacturing process diagrams.

Description

This book focuses on the spaces of production in cities that are significant in their design and contribute to a vital urban environment. This book reexamines the modernist and contemporary factory, along with labor issues in the city and the impact of globalization through the lens of an urbanist, while provoking future scenarios for urban manufacturing. It shows now factories are cleaner and greener, smaller and taller, hybrid and flexible, they can be reintegrated in city life, creating a new paradigm for a sustainable, mixed-use, and more self-sufficient industrial urbanism.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Vertical urban factoryActar Publishers2019-01-01

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