City and Industry: How to Cross Borders? Learning From Innovative Company Site Transformations

While working and living coexisted in the historical city, functions are separated Modernist city. Recently, idea of connected urban districts with short distances attractive work spaces have received renewed attention from companies planners alike, as soft site factors, tacit knowledge, local production gaining importance. In this article we focus on development multi-national company sites economic spatial conditions that encourage them to transform existing sites, improve placemaking, cross borders. We also a look at their interactive influence neighbourhood. talked real estate managers BASF, BMW, Bosch, Siemens, Trumpf about strategies approaches for connecting mixing functions, therefore crossing borders and, where it is necessary, separating. The professional discourse “productive cities” “urban manufacturing” concerned reintegrating into Reurbanisation especially instrumental overcoming major guiding principle or dogma city: separation functions. Nevertheless, reurbanisation results price rises increases competition land. Therefore, planning has pay industrial areas, well housing inner-city. An important thesis pioneers transforming priority suit future development. For cities, an upcoming communal task ensure all areas develop “just, green productive cities,” pointed out New Leipzig Charter. To certain extent, possible adapt design areas. This true regarding question how transition zones between surrounding neighbourhood can be designed spatially functionally sustainable they transformed needs. However, balance many concerns concludes synopsis importance strategic