Creating landscapes
Created by the Fabra i Coats Landscape Lab
Masters in Landscape Intervention and Heritage Management, UAB-MUHBA
The factories of the 19th and 20th centuries have lost their production purpose, those manufactures that shaped the urban industrial landscape all over Europe. Today, the recycling of the city’s industrial fabric allows us to imagine new uses for these premises that are both a testament to the industrial civilisation and the holders of new meanings for the digital society era. What new landscape will cities manufacture in the post-industry century? If the urban landscape always translates a specific urban culture in its shape, what is that culture like in the cities of today?