By Nina Rappaport

Now that urban industry is often clean, green, small, and quiet, it can be integrated at the city and building scale with other uses. Although little explored as of yet, we don’t yet know what this new hybrid will look like and how can it support new entrepreneurs, equitable jobs, and vital urban forms. How can hybrid models change with new technologies, sustainable manufacturing, and advanced production systems to create a new, open city? Can we break the planning and land-use patterns of segregated zoning by class and function and encourage mixed-use zoning that transforms new building and zoning codes and this the mix in the city? These questions and more are addressed in Hybrid Factory / Hybrid City, through a collection of essays by participants in the eponymous symposium organised by Nina Rappaport at the Future Urban Legacy Lab of the Politecnico di Torino.