Vertical Urban Factory [Paperback]

This revised edition focuses on the spaces of production in citiesboth the modernist period and todayand the technologies that have contributed to shifts in factory architecture, manufacturing, and urban design.Vertical Urban Factory tracks the evolution of the vertical urban factory from the first industrial revolution to the present and provides an analysis of the political, social, and economic factors that have shaped todays global industrial landscape. Ultimately, it provokes new concepts for the futureof urban manufacturing, and the necessity of creating new paradigms for sustainable, self-sufficient urban industry.Illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, manufacturing process diagrams, and infographics by MGMT Design.ES Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, Vertical Urban Factory is an impressive work of seminal scholarship and an essential, core, and invaluable addition to professional, corporate, college, and university library Urban Studies collections and American Industrial Studies supplemental reading lists. --Carl Logan, Library Bookwatch Now that architects see nothing but a global culture of consumerism, they need to pay more attention to the factories that feed it. Critic, curator, educator Nina Rappaport encapsulates in this book several years of investigations in architecture studios, her extensive consultations, and her exhibitions devoted to the architectural, social, and spatial typologies of factories since the rise of modern production around 1800. --C. W. Westfall, University of Notre Dame, Choice (American Library Association) Rappaport is a connoisseur of the beauty and utilitarian design of urban factories. However, she does not simply advocate for the preservation and repurposing of urban factories, particularly vertical multi-storied factories. She advocates for the role of industry in dense urban environments going forward into the future. The book is organized in three sections: The Modern FlÃ+