Workers District

The Workers District is where the city manufactures what it needs and processes what it doesn't want to think about. Prospect owns most of the licensed facilities. The licensed facilities own most of the workers. Union activity is illegal but persistent. Sabotage incidents are filed as equipment failure. The workers know the city's infrastructure because they built it — and they know exactly where it's fragile.

Architecture

Brick, concrete, and structural steel framing; overhead crane spans visible through factory windows; chimney stacks and lit gantry frames on the production side. Five-to-nine-story panel residential blocks share the same air as the facilities. Bus shelter canopies on four-lane arterials. Rail tracks embedded in courtyard concrete. Industrial light fittings — crane-mounted halogens and exterior gantry floods — bleed over into the adjacent residential yards at shift change.

In the City

Prospect controls the licensed factories and most of the formal employment. Street Gangs hold the informal supply lines around the plant gates. Guardian presence is thin and unreliable. Key sites: the Rezon Plant (overhead crane floor, foreman's cab on the mezzanine — major confrontation point), Shift Prospect (four-lane boulevard with 24-hour pharmacies and supermarkets in converted ground floors), Singing Field (sheet-metal self-builds at the district edge, community life under pressure), Ghost Ramp (unfinished elevated roadway skeleton with a squatter camp on the upper deck — a meta-project for district reconstruction).