Pathways

Circularity & technology

Circularity & technology

Changes in manufacturing processes, increasing use of cleaner technologies, new policies for resource management and maturing knowledge of the role of manufacturing in the metabolism of cities are providing opportunities for urban manufacturing. Different types of manufacturing activities may have different levels of compatibility with city functions, and not all…

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People, networks & policy

People, networks & policy

Based on the city diagnosis, we dug deeper into the ecology of manufacturers in terms of themes such as jobs and available skills, training, government support and subsidies, competition, logistics access to the market, business motivations, and so forth.  We took an anthropological approach to understand the urban economics, urban metabolism, circular…

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Urban integration

Urban integration

Based on the Cities report, we investigated the urban configurations and building typologies for today’s urban making. The main objective for this theme was to describe the current spatial conditions of locations for manufacturing and to develop principles for spatial conditions that facilitate urban manufacturing also in the future, when pressure…

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