The Plan[t] to Feed the City
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Computer filePublication details: UrbanNext, February 3, 2018.Description: 536 wordsISSN: - 2575-5374
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Energy and sustainability, Essay, expanding design practices, FULL, Low Density, Matteo Robiglio, Technology and fabrication
Adaptive reuse, Chicago, Circular economy, Empowering society, Energy saving, Essay, Food, Food production, Future Urban Legacy Lab, Green, Greenery, Greenhouse, Hub, Industrial, Regenerated industrial facility, Renewal, Sustainability, Urban Legacy, USA
The conveyor rails once used to move slaughtered hogs are still hanging from the ceiling in the former Peer Foods factory – one of the last meatpacking plants to close in Chicago. It shut its doors in 2007. It was by observing something similar that Henry Ford, as he states in his 1922 autobiography My Life and Work, understood the potential of employing moving conveyor system and fixed work stations in manufacturing. If you could disassemble a hog this way, you could reverse the process and assemble a car.
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