This exhibit explores historic and contemporary concepts for the design, structure, mechanization, and economics of multi-storied factories, and their relationship to the urban environment. The exhibition features the innovative architecture of factories that are both urban -- located in cities or shaping cities -- and vertical -- integrated throughout a building or layered floor by floor. Included are significant examples of this architectural typology designed to house and support the production of things. Ultimately, this exhibit focuses on the impact of global economies on the physical space of industries and aims to stimulate ideas for reintegrating the vertical factory and places of production into the urban fabric both programmatically and economically.
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PlanPhilly: Planning Philadelphia's Future