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Vertical Urban Factory — A Review

December 21, 2016 By Carol Berens Leave a Comment

Vertical Urban Factory
Cover: Van Nelle factory, ca. 1960, Courtesy Collectie Gemeentearchief Rotterdam

The role that industry played and continues to play in molding American society was a hotly contested topic this political season. While talk mostly centered on workers and the economic forces that engulf them, little was mentioned about the actual factories where they work and how these structures shape our cities. The interconnection of factory buildings with urban landscapes and the position they hold in the lives of cities are topics that Nina Rappaport, an architectural historian, curator and educator tackles in her latest book, Vertical Urban Factory (2015, Actar Publishers, New York). In nearly 500 pages and 400 photographs and illustrations, she investigates the history of the factory building, manufacturing processes and the integration of industry within cities. [Read more…] about Vertical Urban Factory — A Review

Filed Under: Design, Feature Posts, New York City, Review, Revitalization Tagged With: BOOK REVIEW, factories, gentrification, industrial, Industrial architecture, Retaining industry

The Portes Ouvertes of Belleville

June 5, 2012 By Carol Berens Leave a Comment

Posters on doorsSometimes overnight sensations take a long time. As with chanteuses, so it is with city neighborhoods. Belleville, Paris, is the perfect example. Located in the 20th arrondissement, Belleville was once a sleepy working-class backwater dotted with Chinese, North African and Jewish enclaves. Artists have been gradually moving into the cheap housing and former factories on its steep-sloped streets that provide extraordinary Parisian panoramas.  Sharing the fate of other artist frontiers, this neighborhood has now been “discovered” and integrated into mainstream Paris. [Read more…] about The Portes Ouvertes of Belleville

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature Posts Tagged With: Architecture, art, art studios, artists, France, gentrification, graffiti art, Hollande, Paris, Sarkozy, street art

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