Rapid change in forms of inorganic nitrogen in soil and moderate weed invasion following translocation of wet meadows to reclaimed post‐industrial land

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 964-978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Chmolowska ◽  
Marcin Nobis ◽  
Arkadiusz Nowak ◽  
Magdalena Maślak ◽  
Paweł Kojs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inorganic Nitrogen ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Weed Invasion ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
Wet Meadows ◽  
Post Industrial

Reclamation and development of post-industrial sites for recreation as exemplified by projects carried out in Poland in the 1920s and 1950s

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Zagórska ◽  
Łukasz Makowski
Keyword(s):  
Functional Design ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
Park Planning ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Recreational Use ◽  
Provincial Park

The aim of this article is to present spectacular examples of reclamation and development of post-industrial sites, carried out in Poland in the 1920s and 1950s, with emphasis on their recreational function. Examples include a park built between 1889 and 1920 by Wojciech Bednarski in the valley of the former quarry in Podgórze, now the right-bank district of Krakow, and “General Jerzy Ziętek Provincial Park of Culture and Recreation”, now called “the Silesia Park”, created in the 1950s on degraded post-industrial land located within the borders of three cities: Chorzów, Katowice and Siemianowice Śląskie. Both parks are examples of reclaiming brownfield sites for recreational use in order to create attractive leisure spaces. They have become a model and point of reference for other park planning projects in Poland. Their spatial and functional design is exceptionally timeless. The study is mainly based on a review of the literature of the subject.

scholarly journals Exploring and representing uncertainty: the demand to create order from chaos

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Holdsworth
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Local People ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
Post Industrial

Uncertainty, fear and the apparent contradictions of stagnation and rapid change are defining experiences of daily life for many of the poor and dispossessed in Donetsk, a post-industrial city in Eastern Ukraine. Throughout my fieldwork, exploring the ways in which people are coping with post-Soviet change, I struggled to make sense of people's lives recognizing that local people often say they are living 'non-sensical' lives. These tensions have remained during the process of writing up as I aim to create coherence without doing too much violence to local experiences and representations. Much has been written in recent years about the changing nature of anthropological fieldwork and writing, however as graduate students and young scholars we often find ourselves constrained in the ways we write. Raising questions of anthropological authority, representation and authenticity, this paper addresses the tensions I encountered through the demands of disciplinary orthodoxy, producing linear, ordered texts from disintegrated and fractured lives.

Future Park

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amalie Wright
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Public Parks ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
New Public ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Urban Places

The first public parks were created on urban 'greenfields'. Once these designated sites had been used, cities looked towards post-industrial sites, and built parks in places that had suffered from environmental degradation, neglect, abandonment and conflict. With finite stocks of urban post-industrial land now also approaching exhaustion, more ways of making parks are required to create inclusive, accessible and resilient urban places. Future Park invites Australian built environment professionals and policymakers to consider the future of parks in our cities. Including spectacular images of public spaces throughout the world, the book describes the economic, social and environmental benefits of urban parks, and then outlines the threats and challenges facing cities and communities in an age when more than half the world's population are urban dwellers. Future Park introduces the need to embrace new public park thinking to ensure that benefits continue to be realised. Future Park illustrates imaginative and resourceful responses to real challenges by highlighting recent proposals and projects. These projects coalesce around four broad themes – linkages, obsolescences, co-locations and installations – responding to contemporary urban paradoxes, and ensuring parks continue to play a vital role in the lives of our cities.

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