Derelict land - some positive perspectives

Opening the barrier of military immured spaces in Italy: is their regeneration going beyond the threshold of boundaries?

“…In the fields of study of architecture and urban planning, the state of abandonment, disuse and emptiness can be expressed as 'derelict area' (Kivell and Hatfield, 1998), 'vacant land' (Northam, 1971), 'void' (Secchi et al, 1984), and 'wasteland' (Lynch, 1990), all of them being conceptualised according to different nuances in the planning jargon. Among the conceptualisations of the state of abandonment, the terms useful for understanding the transitory phase of the military settlements intended as immured spaces can be the following:…”

Small Forgotten Places in the Hearth of Cities

“…It is this very capacity to summarise this ambivalence that, according to Mariani & Barron (2014: 6), makes the expression "terrain vague" capable of enclosing within it the different nuances of residual spaces. «Terrain vague, indeed -they write -contains within it a multitude of possible connotations, and is thus well suited to serve as a collective term for various subtypes of leftover land within the edges of the pale-boundaries.» Sometimes urban transformation processes result in the residual spaces disappearing from the life and "routes" of the city, and from its maps, often becoming run-down and abandoned places (see, inter alia, Oxenham, 1966;Barr, 1969;Northam, 1971;Gemmell, 1977;Nabarro & Richards, 1980;Lynch, 1990;Boeri et al, 1993;Pizzetti, 1993;Lerup, 1994;Leong, 1998;Kivell & Hatfield, 1998;Borret, 1999;Doron, 2000;Nielson, 2002;Bowman & Pagano, 2004;Clément, 2004;Berger, 2006), as the missing pieces of spatial and visual journeys that form the structure of the city, between routes, open spaces and built objects (Cecchini & Romano, 2014).…”

Landscape—A Review with a European Perspective

“…Many other terms have been used to describe abandoned and residual spaces: "Derelict land" [92,100,101]; "Zero panorama"; "Empty or abstract settings", and "Dead spots" [102]; "Vacant land" [103,104]; "Wasteland" [105,106]; "il Vuoto" ("the Void") [96], "Urban wilds" e "Urban sinks" [87], "New, nameless places" [107]; "Dross" [108] e "Drosscape" [6]; "No-man's land" [109]; "Dead zones" and "transgressive zones" [110]; "Superfluous landscapes" [111]; "Spaces of uncertainty" [112]; and, "Le Tiers-Paysage", "Les delaisses", "the Third Landscape" and roughly, "Leftover lands" [113]. Other common terms, among others, include "Brownfields", "In-between spaces", "White areas", "Blank areas", "SLOAPs" (Spaces Left Over After Planning), "Voids" [97], and "Terra incognita" [103].…”