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The Case for Urban Manufacturing

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr - February 11, 2025

With cities growing and due to skyrocketing demand for housing, vast areas of industrial land have been rezoned. So, what is still being produced in cities? And why does it matter? Here’s why cities...

Circularity

How Can Urban Manufacturers Make from Waste?

Karl Dickinson - February 11, 2025

Manufacturing in its many manifestations creates mountains of waste. This presents an opportunity. With the correct systems in place, waste becomes a resource and opens the door to innovative businesses, job creation, and economic...

Circularity

How Urban Manufacturing Can Contribute to a Circular Economy

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr - February 11, 2025

Increasingly, cities have become aware of the fact that the current linear use of resources (taking raw materials from the environment, making products from them, and eventually throwing them away as waste) is no...

Circularity

Revitalising Inner City Districts: Brussels’ Many Faces of Circularity

Karl Dickinson - May 2, 2023

Economic hardship drives many struggling city centres to relent and force manufacturing and commerce to give way to residential developments. But some cities are resisting. The historic Abattoir site in Brussels is proof of...

Urban Manufacturing

Lessons from Urban Manufacturing Through Time

Karl Dickinson - February 11, 2025

The 21st-century European city is an amalgamation of the old and new. Contemporary manufacturing is heavily influenced by what came before. This heritage is key to its identity, survival, and revival, but time has...

Urban Manufacturing

Urban Manufacturing: Facts & Figures

Iris Fiebiger - February 11, 2025

Are you wondering why urban manufacturing matters? Still trying to understand what it is all about? We are here to help. Digging through the extensive material of the Cities of Making project, we have...

Urban Manufacturing

How Can Cities Support Manufacturing with Intelligent Transport Design?

Karl Dickinson - February 11, 2025

Transport is integral to urban manufacturing. It is the gateway to resources and the marketplace. Businesses rely on the logistics that links them with staff, partners, and clients. Cities aiming to (re)build and develop...

Urban Manufacturing

Co-location: How Mixed Spaces Benefit Urban Manufacturing

Karl Dickinson - February 11, 2025

Urban manufacturing needs a range of suitable spaces to thrive. Diversifying the uses within buildings, blocks, and neighbourhoods opens up considerable gains: we should consider co-location as a primary tool for making cities more...

Cycling

What Went Wrong with the Paris Referendum On E-Scooters?

Karl Dickinson - March 5, 2024

Micromobility has an image problem. In Paris, a mix of poor planning and bad user habits came to a head as the public voted for e-scooters to be banned. Mobility expert Dagmara Wrzesińska’s outspoken...

FWE Nexus

What Is the Food-Water-Energy Nexus?

Karl Dickinson - October 25, 2022

Water, food, energy: in terms of creating sustainable cities, they are virtually impossible to separate. Optimising outputs for one relies on efficient resource management for all three, intrinsically locked as they are in the...

Mobility

Pascal Smet: Brussels Has Decidedly Chosen to Become a City for People

External Content - February 22, 2021

This article was written by Aseniya Dimitrova for TheMayor.eu. You can find the original post here. It is an interview with Pascal Smet, the Secretary of Urban Planning of the Brussels- Capital Region. Pascal...

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