urbanMSP

Perhaps Tokyo, Seoul, or Singapore could provide some insights into how manufacturing is done in dense urban areas.

Perhaps Tokyo, Seoul, or Singapore could provide some insights into how manufacturing is done in dense urban areas.

I recall reading that Tokyo's zoning model (and maybe Japanese practice as a whole?) was to assign intensity levels to each kind of use, then zone areas for a maximum intensity level - with all lesser-level uses permitted as of right. Under this model, there would be no obstacle to, say, multi-family residential near a manufacturing plant. The idea basically seems to be that if the lower-intensity use, (theoretically) more likely to object than vice-versa, decides it isn't bothered... then why get in their way?

In Tokyo the industrial parks are probably served by high speed trains. Here, ownership of a dependable late model vehicle (preferably an SUV for winter driving) is the price of admission to access the economic opportunities out on the exurban fringe.