Providing transparency in environmental, economic, and social processes helps building trust and acceptance of urban manufacturing, while also founding a basis for interaction and collaboration between businesses.
3. Curator.
The curator helps businesses or neighbourhoods by aligning interests, building partnerships, exploring needs, communicating news and protecting community interests.
4. Availability of diverse jobs.
A diversity in job opportunities that are fairly distributed across the city allows for workplaces to fit the skills, capacities and interests of the local workforce, provides businesses with options for staffing while ensures cities are resilient and accessible.
5. Fair work conditions.
Fair working conditions are integral for providing good quality output, a reliable and agile workforce, a strong brand and in turn to promote manufacturing businesses as a valuable source of employment.
6. Sustainable product cycles.
Manufacturing contributes to city-scale circularity, helping reduce distances from resource to processing site, distribution and retail, and then to re-use, remanufacture, material recovery and back to the production cycle.
7. Multi-scaler circular infrastructure.
A system of integrated infrastructure at different scales is required to manage resource flows (materials and energy) and to promote effective circular economy approaches.
8. Moving Things Efficiently
Time-distance efficiency in logistics contributes to sustainable and competitive manufacturing.
9. Assured Security of Space
Businesses require reliable long term access to their manufacturing space in order to make investment in staff, technology and local networks.
10. Place-based Financial Levers