The Design of Urban Manufacturing

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing. However, urban manufacturing is often invisible and poorly understood in terms of urban design, architecture, and policy. The Design of Urban Manufacturing brings a multidisciplinary approach to a new complex reality that urban manufacturing now sits squarely at the intersection of research, education, and neighborhood revitalization. Using cases studies from across North America and beyond, this book presents innovative approaches not only to the design of districts and buildings, but to the design of policy as well: the special roles that governments, local development corporations, and not-for-profit organizations all have to play in supporting manufacturing. This book presents current models for working neighborhoods where factories enable fine-grained, mixed-use communities and face-to-face contact while creatively solving the very real problems of goods movement and functional buildings. Design guidelines and policy recommendations are calibrated to different types of production districts. The Design of Urban Manufacturing is the essential resource for policy makers, designers, and students in urban design, planning, and urban and economic development.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Section I. The Design of Districts: The Neighborhood as Factory Chapter 1. Urban Design for the Manufacturing District Chapter 2. Manufacturing in the Innovation District Chapter 3. Settlement as Factory: Experience and Experiment in Milan and Italy Chapter 4. Goods Movement for Urban Manufacturing Chapter 5. Mixed-Use Streets—A Conceptual Design Framework Chapter 6. Industry in Motion Section II. The Design of Factories: The Architecture of the Places of Production Chapter 7. Manufacturing Factory Spaces Chapter 8. Designing Today’s Factory—Representation and Functionalism Chapter 9. The Potential for the Sustainable Urban Factory Chapter 10. Spaces of Informal Production in China Chapter 11. Producing production spaces for Industry 4.0 Chapter 12. Changing Spaces in Urban Manufacturing Chapter 13. Re-urbanizing the Box Section III. The Design of Policy: Making it Happen Chapter 14. Considering Industry as Infrastructure: Policy to support spaces for urban manufacturing Chapter 15. Land Use Regulation for Manufacturing Chapter 16. Mixed-Use Neighborhoods—A Challenging Strategy For Maintaining Industry Chapter 17. The Federal Policy Context for Urban Manufacturing Chapter 18. The New Manufacturing: The Innovation Economy Section IV. Atlas: Places of Production and Design Strategies Chapter 19. Atlas and Findings