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Making the city: re-assembling spaces of manufacturing

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Florence Graezer Bideau, Marc Laperrouza, Monique Stéphanie Bolli, Clément Luc Guillaume Renaud
2017

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This introductory paper questions how urban places emerging from the maker movement are re-assembling spatial settings in cities, with the example of the Shenzhen/Hong-Kong area. We discuss how the growing importance of assemblage in manufacturing processes may produce new urban forms, while possibly leading to standardized and risky technocratic projects.

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