Vertical Urban Factory

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Vertical Urban Factory

Enviromental Management, Design and Planning

Nina Rappaport

This revised edition focuses on the spaces of production in cities—both the modernist period and today—and 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 today’s global industrial landscape. Ultimately, it provokes new concepts for the future of urban manufacturing, and the necessity of creating new paradigms for sustainable, self-sufficient urban industry.

“Rappaport describes the innovations in architecture, engineering, and manufacturing in the early 20th century that freed American factories from rural sites next to waterpowered mills so they could rise in cities. The new urban factories created jobs and fostered density, at least until the 1960s, when industry began to move to urban edges, suburbs, and, eventually, overseas. Rappaport also investigates how architects and urban designers, with new technologies and the demand for greener industries, today can create urban production facilities to revitalize cities.” –Architectural Record

Nina Rappaport is an architectural critic, curator, historian, and educator. For over sixteen years she has been publications director at Yale School of Architecture.

Size Format ISBN Printed · EN Price 7.5 x 10 in. / 19 x 25,5 cm Softcover · 484 pages 978-1-94876-514-5 $49.95 / €42 / £38

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