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wheels and was distributed by belts, and going vertical was shorter. Then the
water was replaced by big steam engines. The development of the small electric
motor finally enabled equipment to spread out a bit. But more importantly, the
factories had to be where the workers were, and they didn't have cars and had
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spread out.
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Cities offer valuable advantages for industrial sustainability. Density allows
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the Los Angeles River, have formed clusters in industrial zones to use
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its manufacturing strength as clusters of vertical factories, linked by water,
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2. Can The Vertical Urban Factory Return To Our Cities? : TreeHugger 28/11/12 9:08
high-speed elevated rail systems or overhead conveyances, become hubs of
production and distribution.
Factories are different today, they are not so noisy or dirty as they used to be.
Designed properly, they could easily coexist with other uses.
Advancements in ecologically-responsible technology mean that clean
manufacturing can exist adjacent to residential spaces, and that work and
living can be hybridized in new ways. The architectural and urban issues
addressing manufacturing in cities present not only an exciting design
challenge of integrated systems, new fabrication technologies and
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