Sustainable urban regeneration of brownfield sites

Brownfield regeneration – imperative for sustainable urban development

The possibility of revitalization of abandoned or insufficiently used industrial and commercial facilities and areas in towns, known as brownfield incentives, is analyzed in the paper. These facilities and areas are most often situated in central parts of towns, and their revitalisation results in creation of new facilities which often become symbols or landmarks of such towns. The meaning of b...

Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration: Redrawing the Boundaries of Expertise

In order to enhance the ‘sustainability’ of brownfield urban regeneration it is increasingly argued that there needs to be a wholesale re-drawing of the boundaries of expertise. The original objectives of the sustainable development discourses included the idea that powers and responsibilities should be devolved away from professionals, bureaucrats, engineers, and scientists and given to empowe...

Sustainable regeneration of an urban wasteland

The increasing importance of sustainability in town planning and architectural design is strongly questioning the actual logic of built environment dispersion. The peripheral extension of cities is indeed leading to irrational uses of ground, growing environmental impacts and important infrastructural costs. Looked at from that point of view, the goal of the Ecoparc project is the regeneration ...

Sustainable Urban Regeneration Based on Energy Balance

In this paper, results are reported of a technology assessment of the use and integration of decentralized energy systems and storage devices in an urban renewal area. First the general context of a different approach based on 'rethinking' and the incorporation of ongoing integration of coming economical and environmental interests on infrastructure, in relation to the sustainable urban develop...

SUSTAINABLE URBAN REGENERATION, AN ONGOING DISCOURSE (WESTERN) EUROPE, GERMANY