INTRODUCTION
Through technology and innovative discoveries, the Industrial Revolution introduced our urban environment to both new opportunities and new environmental challenges. Globally connected industries and manufacturing, large infrastructural networks and cheap energy - all technologies crucial to our cities and economy’s rapid growth - were developed during this period. Similarly, my thesis is based on exploring the synergies between new technology, the urban environment and environmental challenges through global, urban and local scales. The thesis is therefore a hypothetical project about climate change measures and urban industry in symbiosis. There is urgency for a counter-reaction to the urban, social and environmental consequences of the Industrial Revolution, and the polluting traditions which this generation caused. As new technologies emerge and we enter a modern era of industrialisation, definitions and approaches to industry change. Heavy industry has been relocated away from city centres, due to globalization, pollution, changes in production and newer demands for dwellings and leisure in cities. Our cities no longer contain the resources or spaces conventional production requires, and these factories provide little prosperity in an urban context. Still, infrastructure and consumer trends remain, still contributing to air pollution in our urban areas.
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