From industrial area to industry-inspired urban district.

Innovation in knowledge work today is based more than ever on diversity, networking and exchange. At the same time, there is a growing realization that cities, in the sense of a productive city, are not only dependent on knowledge and service work, but also on material production as an economic activity. Against this backdrop, Markus Weismann and Nadine Funck have written an essay on the further development of monofunctional industrial and commercial areas into industrial districts.