Comment 69012

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted September 03, 2011 at 09:52:14 in reply to Comment 68974

It's a pretty optimistic article. A concentration of industries would help with some issues (like recycling), but it would be hard to apply this to heavy industries. A steel mill's blast furnace is a structure of it's own, and then there's the equipment needed to cold-roll steel, etc. There's a tremendous amount of emissions, heat, vibrations and power drain involved, and any number of different industries involve them on too large a scale to build "up" for many stories.

A better option would be to rethink how much of our production really needs to take place at that scale. A great amount could easily be built into higher floors of a factory building, but just as easily into an apartment building or garage. The technological restrictions that required large centralized factories (waterwheels and steam engines) are long-gone, so why limit such production to only industrial buildings or districts? The benefits of integration go well beyond just clustering industries.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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