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Urban re-industrialisation could be seen as a method of increasing business effectiveness in the context of a politically stimulated ‘green economy’; it could also be seen as a nostalgic mutation of a creative-class concept, focused on 3D printing, ‘boutique manufacturing’ and crafts. These two notions place urban re-industrialisation within the context of the current neoliberal economic regime and urban development based on property and land speculation. Could urban re-industrialisation be a more radical idea? Could urban re-industrialization be imagined as a progressive socio-political and economic project, aimed at creating an inclusive and democratic society based on cooperation and a symbiosis that goes way beyond the current model of a neoliberal city?In January 2012, against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis, Krzysztof Nawratek published a text in opposition to the fantasy of a ‘cappuccino city,’ arguing that the post-industrial city is a fiction, and that it should be replaced by ‘Industrial City 2.0.’ Industrial City 2.0 is an attempt to see a post-socialist and post-industrial city from another perspective, a kind of negative of the modernist industrial city. If, for logistical reasons and because of a concern for the health of residents, modernism tried to separate different functions from each other (mainly industry from residential areas), Industrial City 2.0 is based on the ideas of coexistence, proximity, and synergy. The essays collected here envision the possibilities (as well as the possible perils) of such a scheme.ABOUT THE EDITORKrzysztof Nawratek is a senior lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, UK. Educated as an architect and urban planner, he has worked as a visiting professor at the Geography Department at the University of Latvia and as a researcher at the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, Maynooth, Ireland. He was a member of the Board of Experts European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012, 2014, and 2016, and was also a member of the selection panel for the Polish contribution to the 13th International Architecture Biennial in Venice in 2012 and to the 14th Biennial in 2014. Nawratek is an urban theorist, author of City as a Political Idea (University of Plymouth Press, 2011), Holes in the Whole: Introduction to the Urban Revolutions (Zero Books, 2012), and Radical Inclusivity: Architecture and Urbanism (dpr-barcelona, 2015), as well as the author of several papers and chapters in edited volumes.
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Keywords
- Architecture
- design theory
- Green Economy
- Industrialization
- Regional & area planning
- Urban & municipal planning
- urban planning
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DOI: 10.21983/P3.0176.1.00Editions
