Integrating Brownfield Sites Into City Redevelopment Strategies

Moscovici, Anca-Maria

doi:10.5593/sgem2017/62/s27.086

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“…The cities of Turku (Finland), Livani (Latvia), or Kohtla-Järve (Estonia), for instance, are sadly famous for their large industrial brownfields. In Romania too, brownfield sites are still very common, especially in big cities like Timisoara and in former industrial cities (Moscovici et al 2017). But it would be wrong to think that the topicality of the industrial brownfield subject is restricted to Baltic or Eastern European countries.…”

Section: Large Sub-or Peri-urban Industrial Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Brownfields: Origin, Definition, and Diversity

Rey

Laprise

Lufkin

2021

Neighbourhoods in Transition

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Brownfield is a polysemic notion that encompasses a whole range of diverse spaces. Although there is no official definition at the European level, an emerging consensus has arisen around the urban character of brownfields and the need for intervention. Indeed, their location within metropolitan areas represents a strategic opportunity to densify and rejuvenate the urban fabric at the neighbourhood scale. Hence, we propose a definition of urban brownfields that is flexible enough to optimize the potential development of abandoned sites and precise enough to enable framing the discussion. Then, we take a look at the diversity of urban brownfields in European metropolitan areas by briefly explaining the factors that cause a site to become a brownfield and then attempting to classify different types of urban brownfields. The proposed classification aims to create a non-exhaustive reference framework by offering in-depth knowledge of the urban brownfield and regeneration projects phenomenon across Europe, without setting its meaning in stone.

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Section: Large Sub-or Peri-urban Industrial Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Brownfields: Origin, Definition, and Diversity

Rey

Laprise

Lufkin

2021

Neighbourhoods in Transition

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“…This is because, over the decades, some industries developed in the post-war period, due to the production sector crisis [4], shut down for bankruptcy, because their processes with the changing of workers' health requirements, or because the increasing fiscal pressure leaded to delocalization. From this arises the need to recover them and transform them into something else [5][6][7].…”

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Impact of Brownfield Sites on Local Energy Production as Resilient Response to Land Contamination: A Case Study in Italy

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The decentralization of the production sector crisis following industries in the suburbs have generated a multitude of empty containers in the medium-large Italian cities, which are abandoned, unsafe, and often dangerous for the community. From this arises the need to recover them and transform them into something else. This is not always possible or interesting for the subjects involved in the transformation. When the abandoned space is (even if only partially) polluted, then any hypothesis of transformation is stopped due to the high impact of decontamination costs, which greatly compromise the profitability of the investment. This paper deals with this issue focusing on a complex case study involving the abandoned area and the buildings of a former paint mill in the center of a typical city in the Turin metropolitan area. The suggested hypothesis is to act only on building components and external areas without any ground modification because of its contamination. Moreover, the new planned use (energy production from renewable sources to supply part of the public administration’s needs) does not foresee neither a stable presence of people nor a further consumption of land. The technical analysis of community energy needs and the subsequent economic and financial study lead to a financial sustainability over a period of about 25 years.

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Integrating Brownfield Sites Into City Redevelopment Strategies

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Urban Brownfields: Origin, Definition, and Diversity

Urban Brownfields: Origin, Definition, and Diversity

Impact of Brownfield Sites on Local Energy Production as Resilient Response to Land Contamination: A Case Study in Italy

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