ABSTRACT
Baltimore's port specialization in general cargo may have just been a bet on the right horse, if one equates containers as symbols of mass production and general cargo as customization. If custom production instead of serial production is the new way of making things, the economic theories of the long-dead economist Schumpeter can finally be buried for good. His theories were built around the need for concentration of capital for huge investments on machines of mass production that allow the economy of scale. Urban agriculture takes up the challenge of bringing food closer to the globally growing urban population in experimental ways, trying out new ways of low-impact production and the integration of urban surfaces into food production. Still, already now the high cost of prototypes, injection molds or extrusion dies for mass production can be lowered drastically through 3-D printing, allowing more product variation for less cost.
