read the full article in the New York Times
Urban Manufacturing in Brooklin
read the full article in the New York Times
Research Task Definition Session
This is a parallel task to your project. It is not about your project.
The aim of this research task is to identify relevant information about productive cities, good practice, interesting projects, good examples, good questions.
We hope the result will show the state of the art, the existing knowledge about productive cities. Look at the blog, look at the example entries, and follow their cue.
Find a good example, describe it in your own words, and provide links to images or videos that explain it, via the Post Compiling Google Form
Please fill the form by Thursday at midnight.
TUESDAY
1. Presentation of task
2. Group work
3. Plenary session - preparation of the list of tasks to undertake, per group.
Grupo A. Corredor 9
Grupo B. Corredor 1 y 2 - Regeneración y conexión
Grupo C. Corredor 5 - Energy Production in the City
Grupo D. Corredores con diversidad cultural 9 y 3
Grupo E. Corredor 3 (Usera) - Transformación de exproductivo a makerspace
Grupo F. Corredor transversal Avda. Los Poblados - De lo Productivo a la Ciudad Productiva
Grupo G. Corredor 2 - Emprendimiento vecinal
Grupo H. Corridor1 -
Group I. Corridor 9 - Chamartin (Mon and Thurs English Group)
THURSDAY
Deadline for submission via the Post Compiling Google Form
Please fill the form by Thursday at midnight.
FRIDAY
Marathon of presentations; 2-3 minutes per person.
The aim of this research task is to identify relevant information about productive cities, good practice, interesting projects, good examples, good questions.
We hope the result will show the state of the art, the existing knowledge about productive cities. Look at the blog, look at the example entries, and follow their cue.
Find a good example, describe it in your own words, and provide links to images or videos that explain it, via the Post Compiling Google Form
Please fill the form by Thursday at midnight.
TUESDAY
1. Presentation of task
2. Group work
3. Plenary session - preparation of the list of tasks to undertake, per group.
Grupo A. Corredor 9
- 1. Barrio Vital según Jean Nouvel (reestructuracion espacios públicos)
- 2. Singapur Parke Industrial Viet-nam
- 3. Integración de industria existente y activa en un parque urbano: el caso Medellín.
Grupo B. Corredor 1 y 2 - Regeneración y conexión
- 1. North Milano Productive Landscape (Polimi project)
- 2. La Ciudad de la Imagen, Madrid
- 3. Resiliencia Urbana según la Fundación Rockefeller
Grupo C. Corredor 5 - Energy Production in the City
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
Grupo D. Corredores con diversidad cultural 9 y 3
- 1. Aspectos productivos de la identidad cultural
- 2.
- 3.
Grupo E. Corredor 3 (Usera) - Transformación de exproductivo a makerspace
- 1. San Diego Creative Makers.
- 2. La Fabrika de toda la vida (Badajoz) (es urbano?)
- 3. London Makers
Grupo F. Corredor transversal Avda. Los Poblados - De lo Productivo a la Ciudad Productiva
- 1. La depuradora del Besós como ejemplo paradigmático.
- 2. "La Frontera" (la escritura no creativa)
- 3.
- 4.
Grupo G. Corredor 2 - Emprendimiento vecinal
- 1. Consumo colaborativo como internalización de una fase de la producción
- 2. Antiproducción, Microproducción... Wallapop versus eBay
- 3.
- 4.
Grupo H. Corridor1 -
- 1. Laverne in Detroit
- 2. Beekeeping in London
- 3. Heinrich Tessenow, Trabajo Artesanal Pequeña Ciudad
Group I. Corridor 9 - Chamartin (Mon and Thurs English Group)
- 1. Renewable energy in Malmö, Sweden
- 2. Sustainable waste management in London
- 3. Supply and demand in food production
- 4. Mobility - London's electric car sharing system
THURSDAY
Deadline for submission via the Post Compiling Google Form
Please fill the form by Thursday at midnight.
FRIDAY
Marathon of presentations; 2-3 minutes per person.
Remanentes industriales en Madrid
ENG An article (in Spanish) about post-crisis industrial remnants in Madrid. If industry is at 50%, what can we do with the other 50%?
(Una contribución de Silvia Herrero )
Brussels Productive City
Atelier Brussels - The Productive Metropolis.
in English, with subtitles in French and Dutch.
Interview with the master architect of the Brussels-Capital Region Kristiaan Borret (bMa) in the framework of the exhibition 'A Good City Has Industry'
In Dutch, with subtitles in French and English
Brussels - Productive Capital of Europe.
Video by Architecture Workroom Brussels for the exhibition 'Imagine Europe. In Search of New Narratives' at Bozar.
In Dutch, with subtitles in French and English
in English, with subtitles in French and Dutch.
Interview with the master architect of the Brussels-Capital Region Kristiaan Borret (bMa) in the framework of the exhibition 'A Good City Has Industry'
In Dutch, with subtitles in French and English
Brussels - Productive Capital of Europe.
Video by Architecture Workroom Brussels for the exhibition 'Imagine Europe. In Search of New Narratives' at Bozar.
In Dutch, with subtitles in French and English
UN Habitat: A Productive City
Go to the UN Habitat "A Productive City" site with this link.
Here is a summary:
Make cities more efficient and better places to ensure decent work
Cities' ability to create decent jobs depends to a large extent on economic growth. Adequate investments in urban infrastructure and basic services, removing inappropriate and unnecessary regulations on businesses, adequate investments in education, skills development and improving technical and financial efficiency of urban authorities are key to enhancing urban productivity and thereby achieving economic growth and decent jobs for all.
WHAT WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN PARTNERS DO TOWARDS A PRODUCTIVE CITY
Good Practices
Learn here about good practices and actions towards a productive city.
Enabling Legislation
Learn here about legislation towards a productive city.
Tools and Methods
Learn here (no link) about tools and methods that enable urban policy-makers and practitioners to better plan, build, manage and measure impacts towards a productive city.
Good Policies
Learn here about good policies that have shown successful results at the national, regional and city levels and enabled decision-makers to tackle urban challenges and deliver positive change to citizens towards a productive city.
The Bartlett summarized the UN Habitat meetings on their own website:
Bringing Back the ‘Productive City’
15 December 2015
habitat III 1
Habitat III, a U.N. summit on human settlements that will take place in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2016, is causing much excitement among urban professionals across the globe. The third of its kind and twenty years after Habitat II, Habitat III is expected to lead to the deliberation and adoption of a New Urban Agenda by the U.N. community. Since it is the first major U.N. conference after the declaration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the International Climate Accord at the COP 21 climate summit, it is considered as a great opportunity to cement the implementation of these Goals and the Accord. That one of the Goals calls for action to ‘make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable’ (often referred to as the ‘urban goal’) has further increased the potency of Habitat III.
In preparation for the summit, the Habitat III Secretariat has appointed 200 experts in ten Policy Units that are tasked with the preparation of ten Policy Papers, although it is not quite clear how these Policy Papers will feed into the New Urban Agenda. Nominated by DFID, DPU is one of the two UK-based organisations that have been selected to co-lead one of the Policy Units, that is, Policy Unit 7 (on urban economic development strategies).
On the 3rd and 4th December 2015, DPU hosted the first Experts Group Meeting of the Policy Unit 7. A total of 11 people attended the meeting, including seven experts, three co-leaders (including Julio Davila and Le-Yin Zhang) and an officer from the Habitat III Secretariat. Participants of the meeting debated the key issues to be covered in the Policy Paper on urban economic development strategies and agreed on an action plan for the preparation of the Paper. DPU also held a reception to mark the occasion.
habitat III 4
A wide range of questions were addressed at the meeting. These include:
1) What should be the focus of urban economic development in future? Should it be enhancing the productivity of cities, or the creation of employment?
2) What principles should guide policy intervention in this field? Should the pursuit of sustainability be part of the objective? There were concerns that the inclusion of sustainability issues such as climate change and low-carbon economies may lead to policies that would slow down economic growth in cities in developing countries.
3) What is the future role of the informal sector? Does it have a long-term future or is it transitional?
4) What should be the role of the state, especially that of local states, in urban economic development? Are they an enabler or a potential source of problem for the informal sector and corporations? What institutional changes are required to make local governments more effective?
5) What does formalisation mean? Is it about bringing informal businesses within the orbit of regulation and taxation, or is it about protecting the rights and welfare of the informal workers?
6) How much can private corporations be relied on to create decent jobs and generate municipal revenue? What should the government do in order to enlarge their role?
7) What would be the most effective way of generating local revenue? Is it via corporate income taxation, or land-related taxes?
8) What does ‘inclusiveness’ mean? Is it about inclusion of the poor and marginal groups, or is it about including both the poor and the well-to-do?
9) What does resilience mean? Whose resilience are we concerned with?
habitat III 2
From time to time, these and other questions aroused heated debate among the participants.
Much of the dispute originates from different levels of attention paid to the need to balance productivity, equity and sustainability. The word ‘productive’ is unfortunately missing from the ‘urban goal’, but the New Urban Agenda should bring it back.
IAAC 6th advanced architecture competition: Productive City (2015)
The aim of the competition was to promote discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.
The competition was open to architects, engineers, planners and designers wanting to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and productive cities.
A book of results will be published in 2017.In the meantime, see the results on-line here.
Amsterdam Productive City
Circular Cities
Designing post industrial Amsterdam
ENG issuu link here
The case of Buiksloterham Buiksloterham is an archetypal post-industrial neighborhood, not far from the city center of Amsterdam. The city board and many other parties have the ambition to develop this area into a Circular neighborhood. The context - a former industrial area - leads to a number of specific challenges in terms of circularity. What are the lessons learned from the projects Buiksloterham so far? And how can this be rolled out to other post-industrial areas?
Circular Buiksloterham.
Transitioning Amsterdam to a Circular City
ENG issuu link here
Cities are the future. There are many reasons to rethink their development and management. The Circular Economy provides one useful perspective for rethinking urban development, but it can be an abstract concept that remains difficult to apply. The vision and actionplan presented in this report for the transformation of Buiksloterham provides a tangible interpretation of the Circular Economy for a part of Amsterdam.
Buiksloterham.nl
...and meanwhile in Rotterdam...
the productive city
Development Perspectives for a Regional Manufacturing Economy.
NAi Booksellers
More and more cities are refocusing on the manufacturing economy, encouraged by the transition to a circular economy, the emergence of smart technology, and the need for socially inclusive cities. To Rotterdam, a port city with a rich industrial history, this is a development that offers welcome opportunities.
As part of the 7th edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, IABR–2016–THE NEXT ECONOMY, the city of Rotterdam and the IABR have established Atelier Rotterdam: The Productive City.
The Atelier has conducted research by design to identify the opportunities for the future of the Metropolitan Region Rotterdam The Hague from the perspective of the next manufacturing economy.
What value can the manufacturing economy add to the city and the region? Is it possible to improve its links with existing large-scale industry? And will this allow Rotterdam to profit more from the huge material flows that will continue to traverse the port and the city in the future?
The Atelier presents seven spatial development perspectives on the scale of the Metropolitan Region Rotterdam The Hague. They do not constitute an all-encompassing strategy, but a range of strategic and prototypical interventions that strengthen the regional manufacturing economy and thus contribute to an economically strong and socially inclusive urban region.
See also a summary of the atelier in Marco Broekman's website.
Designing post industrial Amsterdam
The case of Buiksloterham Buiksloterham is an archetypal post-industrial neighborhood, not far from the city center of Amsterdam. The city board and many other parties have the ambition to develop this area into a Circular neighborhood. The context - a former industrial area - leads to a number of specific challenges in terms of circularity. What are the lessons learned from the projects Buiksloterham so far? And how can this be rolled out to other post-industrial areas?
Circular Buiksloterham.
Transitioning Amsterdam to a Circular City
ENG issuu link here
Cities are the future. There are many reasons to rethink their development and management. The Circular Economy provides one useful perspective for rethinking urban development, but it can be an abstract concept that remains difficult to apply. The vision and actionplan presented in this report for the transformation of Buiksloterham provides a tangible interpretation of the Circular Economy for a part of Amsterdam.
Buiksloterham.nl
...and meanwhile in Rotterdam...
the productive city
Development Perspectives for a Regional Manufacturing Economy.
More and more cities are refocusing on the manufacturing economy, encouraged by the transition to a circular economy, the emergence of smart technology, and the need for socially inclusive cities. To Rotterdam, a port city with a rich industrial history, this is a development that offers welcome opportunities.
As part of the 7th edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, IABR–2016–THE NEXT ECONOMY, the city of Rotterdam and the IABR have established Atelier Rotterdam: The Productive City.
The Atelier has conducted research by design to identify the opportunities for the future of the Metropolitan Region Rotterdam The Hague from the perspective of the next manufacturing economy.
What value can the manufacturing economy add to the city and the region? Is it possible to improve its links with existing large-scale industry? And will this allow Rotterdam to profit more from the huge material flows that will continue to traverse the port and the city in the future?
The Atelier presents seven spatial development perspectives on the scale of the Metropolitan Region Rotterdam The Hague. They do not constitute an all-encompassing strategy, but a range of strategic and prototypical interventions that strengthen the regional manufacturing economy and thus contribute to an economically strong and socially inclusive urban region.
See also a summary of the atelier in Marco Broekman's website.
The New Urban FabriK.
Torrent Estadella Eco-Industrial Park. Barcelona
Commissioned by the Municipality of Barcelona, this study by Eduard Balcells and Honorata Grzesikowska (shortlisted in Europan 13) provides a strategy to revitalize the central but decaying industrial site of Torrent Estadella, reconnecting it to the city and turning the area into the productive centre of Barcelona’s emerging Green Economy industries.
ESP resumen en castellano en plataformaarquitectura
¿Es posible dar un futuro a la industria en el corazón de la ciudad central de Barcelona?
A través del proyecto "The New Urban FabriK", desarrollado por encargo del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, los arquitectos y urbanistas Eduard Balcells y Honorata Grzesikowska (finalistas de Europan 13) buscan hacerse cargo de la extensa zona industrial de Torrent Estadella.
Europan 14 Theme - pdf
How mixed is the mixed-city?
Housing remains the main program in many urban development projects of the post-industrial era. We wisely add some office places and public amenities, but remain especially keen on stimulating bars, shops and restaurants because we want every new district to be a "genuine vibrant urban neighbourhood." Looking back at how we organized this wave of regeneration, we can see how we have systematically excluded one program: the productive economy.
There is now in many European cities a spatial and social mismatch between living and working conditions. The city provides high-skilled professionals with many working possibilities while a large part of low-skilled workers live in the city with no work opportunity. This mismatch generates many problems with regard to economy, mobility and sociality.
Of course, we should not bring steel factories back to the city centre. But we are already welcoming all kinds of small-scale urban manufacturing. We are accommodating more and more of the new recycling industry within the city itself. We could systematically save some space in our redevelopment programs for small and medium enterprises. We should avoid the pendulum movement of a plumber living in the city and repairing our houses in the city but having to drive out of the city to find available workshop and storage space. Production should be encouraged in the city, be part of the fabric, be allowed to be seen, connected to shared daily life, nurtured and celebrated. Which alternatives should we produce for such a city?
How to integrate some of the production activities in the city –such as the production of food, energy, low skilled services, new industrial products– to enhance new relations between citizens?
How to live in productive fields and to produce in living environment?
How to integrate all the production cycles considering distribution, waste and consumption?
The challenge for Europan 14 is to generate new kinds of proximity by connecting the living and the producing.
pdf in english
pdf in spanish
Ver aquí una resentación del tema en el sitio web de Europan-España.
Housing remains the main program in many urban development projects of the post-industrial era. We wisely add some office places and public amenities, but remain especially keen on stimulating bars, shops and restaurants because we want every new district to be a "genuine vibrant urban neighbourhood." Looking back at how we organized this wave of regeneration, we can see how we have systematically excluded one program: the productive economy.
There is now in many European cities a spatial and social mismatch between living and working conditions. The city provides high-skilled professionals with many working possibilities while a large part of low-skilled workers live in the city with no work opportunity. This mismatch generates many problems with regard to economy, mobility and sociality.
Of course, we should not bring steel factories back to the city centre. But we are already welcoming all kinds of small-scale urban manufacturing. We are accommodating more and more of the new recycling industry within the city itself. We could systematically save some space in our redevelopment programs for small and medium enterprises. We should avoid the pendulum movement of a plumber living in the city and repairing our houses in the city but having to drive out of the city to find available workshop and storage space. Production should be encouraged in the city, be part of the fabric, be allowed to be seen, connected to shared daily life, nurtured and celebrated. Which alternatives should we produce for such a city?
How to integrate some of the production activities in the city –such as the production of food, energy, low skilled services, new industrial products– to enhance new relations between citizens?
How to live in productive fields and to produce in living environment?
How to integrate all the production cycles considering distribution, waste and consumption?
The challenge for Europan 14 is to generate new kinds of proximity by connecting the living and the producing.
pdf in english
pdf in spanish
Ver aquí una resentación del tema en el sitio web de Europan-España.
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Purpose of this blog / Objetivos de este Blog
ENG. The purpose of this blog is to gather all available information related to the topic "Productive Cities", to inform our course work on Madrid Productive City, and also as a contribution to the global debate on the topic.
If you have or know of relevant information you want to share, please leave a comment in any post, directing us to the info, a summary, and indicating how you would like to be credited.
You may use this Post Compiling Google Form but if you are late to our deadline (02/02/2017 23:59) do leave a comment, so that we get notified.
This blog is set in English, but the content is bilingual in English and/or Spanish. Some links may lead to content in other languages, as long as there is a summary in English and/or Spanish.
ESP. El propósito de este blog es reunir toda la información disponible relacionada con el tema "Ciudades Productivas", para informar nuestro trabajo de curso sobre Madrid, y también para contribuir al debate global sobre el tema.
Si usted tiene o sabe de alguna información relevante que desee compartir, por favor deje un comentario en cualquier post, con enlace a la información, un breve resumen, e indicando cómo le gustaría que se acreditase su nombre.
Puede utilizar este Formulario Google pero si está fuera de plazo (02/02/2017 23:59) deje un comentario aquí para que nos llegue notificación.
Este blog está básicamente en inglés, pero el contenido es bilingüe en inglés y/o español. Algunos enlaces pueden dirigirse a contenidos en otros idiomas, siempre y cuando haya un resumen en inglés y/o español.
If you have or know of relevant information you want to share, please leave a comment in any post, directing us to the info, a summary, and indicating how you would like to be credited.
You may use this Post Compiling Google Form but if you are late to our deadline (02/02/2017 23:59) do leave a comment, so that we get notified.
This blog is set in English, but the content is bilingual in English and/or Spanish. Some links may lead to content in other languages, as long as there is a summary in English and/or Spanish.
ESP. El propósito de este blog es reunir toda la información disponible relacionada con el tema "Ciudades Productivas", para informar nuestro trabajo de curso sobre Madrid, y también para contribuir al debate global sobre el tema.
Si usted tiene o sabe de alguna información relevante que desee compartir, por favor deje un comentario en cualquier post, con enlace a la información, un breve resumen, e indicando cómo le gustaría que se acreditase su nombre.
Puede utilizar este Formulario Google pero si está fuera de plazo (02/02/2017 23:59) deje un comentario aquí para que nos llegue notificación.
Este blog está básicamente en inglés, pero el contenido es bilingüe en inglés y/o español. Algunos enlaces pueden dirigirse a contenidos en otros idiomas, siempre y cuando haya un resumen en inglés y/o español.
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