Working Cities: Architecture, Place and Production

ISBN-13: 9781138328662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 270 str.

Howard Davis

Opis

This book is about the importance of production in the life of the city, and the relationships between production, architecture and urban form. It answers the question - what will cities be like when they become, once again, places of production and not only of consumption?　

Spis treści

Introduction: Beyond the city as object  PART 1: THE EVOLUTION OF PRODUCTION SPACE  1. Typologies of capital and control  2. Pre-industrial workshops  3. Factory zones  4. Cities adrift  5. New work in old cities  PART 2: THE VITALITY OF CITY LIFE  6. Production and urban complexity  7. The terroir of things  8. Including the maker  9. 'One great workshop': a new industrial urbanism  PART 3: MAKING SPACE FOR PRODUCTION  10. Design and policy for the new working city  Conclusion: The city in 2050  Bibliography  Index