Investment on Obsolete Industrial Infrastructure: Silicon Valley vs. Silicon Alley

FULL, No Density, Talk, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms, Vicente Guallart

Cities, Cultural legacy, Digital technologies, Future Urban Legacy Lab, Industrial, Industrial context, Infrastructure, talk, Urban design, Urban infrastructure, Urban Legacy, Urban Paradigms

Excerpt of an urbanNext think tank held at the Torre dell’Arsenale in Venice, as an event alongside the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2018, for the Future Urban Legacy Lab (FULL), a research centre of the Politecnico di Torino.

Filmed and edited by Daniel Ruiz.

Vicente Guallart talks about how the digital technologies disruption in cities has lead to an investment on obsolete industrial infrastructure and the difference between the Silicon Valley model and the Silicon Alley one.