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Synopsis
Vertical Urban Factory focuses on the spaces of
production in cities that both comprise factories
that are significant in their design and contribute
to a vital urban environment. This book reexamines
the historic modernist and contemporary
factories through the lens of an urbanist while
provoking the future of urban manufacturing.
It shows that now factories are cleaner and greener
they can be reintegrated in city life creating a new
paradigm for sustainable urban industry that is
also more self-sufficient.
Illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs,
manufacturing process diagrams, and
infographics by MGMT Design.
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Review
"Rappaport describes the innovations in architecture, engineering, and manufacturing in the early 20th century that freed American factories from rural sites next to water-powered 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
..".a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey of urban factory architecture from its inception around the middle of the 18th century down to the present. Not just a study of the factory's architectural evolution, Vertical urban Factory offers a trenchant analysis of the role it has played in shaping social space over time." --Ross Wolfe, Metropolis Magazine
"With histories of urban factories, considerations of the economic and social aspects of industry, and speculations on the future of vertical urban factories, among numerous other things, Rappaport's book is much more than a documentation of the exhibition and its projects. It is as thorough a document on the phenomenon she discerned and independently researched as could be expected." --John Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture
"Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Vertical Urban Factory" is an impressive work of seminal scholarship and an essential, core, and invaluable addition to professional, corporate, college, and university library Urban Studies collections and American Industrial Studies supplemental reading lists." --Carl Logan, Library Bookwatch
"What is most impressive about this book is that this is no edited volume; it is not a collection of like-minded essays from different scholars converging on a similar theme. This is one woman's thinking and writing for 480 pages (including the index and endnotes). Although she has had collaborators and comrades, Rappaport has honed a point of view that has otherwise gone out of fashion in scholarly work with her clear, liberal, humanist, and questioning body of work. As you read, relish this focus." -Annie Coggan, Oculus Magazine
"Rappaport is a connoisseur of the beauty and utilitarian design of urban factories. However, she does not simply advocate for the preservation and repurposing of urban factories, particularly "vertical" multi-storied factories. She advocates for the role of industry in dense urban environments going forward into the future. The book is organized in three sections: "The Modern Factory," "The Contemporary Factory," and "The Future Factory."" --Carol Berens, UrbDeZine
"Now that architects see nothing but a global culture of consumerism, they need to pay more attention to the factories that feed it. Critic, curator, educator Nina Rappaport encapsulates in this book several years of investigations in architecture studios, her extensive consultations, and her exhibitions devoted to the "architectural, social, and spatial typologies" of factories since the rise of modern production around 1800." --C. W. Westfall, University of Notre Dame, Choice
About the Author
Nina Rappaport is an architectural critic, curator, historian, and educator. For over sixteen years she has been publications director at Yale School of Architecture, for which she edits the bi-annual magazine Constructs, exhibition catalogs, and the books series.
She directs Vertical Urban Factory, which includes a traveling exhibition (New York, Detroit, Toronto, London, and Lausanne) and a think tank analyzing manufacturing, factory design, and ecological industrial urbanism. She curated the exhibitions Ezra Stoller: Photographer in Washington, D.C., The Swiss Section at the Van Alen Institute, in New York, and co-curated Saving Corporate Modernism, at Yale. She is co-editor of the book, Ezra Stoller: Photographer, author of the book, Support and Resist: Structural Engineers and Design Innovation, and co-author of the book, Long Island City: Connecting the Arts. She has taught industrial urbanism, urban design theory, and has co-taught architectures studios at Syracuse New York City, Parsons School of Design, Barnard College, City College, and Yale School of Architecture. She has written numerous essays on structural design, architecture, and global industrial landscapes for international journals and magazines.
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