Post-Industrial sites and the clash of narratives: The case of the Gdańsk shipyard

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Golinowska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Post Industrial

This article explores the clash of various narratives around the Gdańsk shipyard, one of the famous examples of a post-industrial heritage site with a significant political past, located in Poland. The analysis is placed within the larger context of contemporary debates on heritage and the specificity of post-industrial sites, showing how vulnerable and fragile foundations such sites may have, as well as how they are susceptible to various manipulations.

scholarly journals From blight to beauty: the controversial creation of the first U.S. industrial-heritage park

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 35-55
Author(s):  
Tanya Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
Environmental Aesthetics ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
City Park

This paper describes and assesses Richard Haag’s controversial campaign to create Seattle’s Gas Works Park. Haag’s plan is significant in the history of environmental aesthetics, because it was the first to preserve remnants of industrial heritage in a United States city park, and because Haag appealed to aesthetics when making his case. I argue Haag’s campaign was persuasive, and I claim the former gas works now function within the park in much the same way as the ruins of parks of previous centuries. And because the structures are now ruins, they do not sanctify the destructive function they used to have. Finally, I claim that human intervention in abandoned, derelict, or post-industrial sites can be worthwhile if it successfully conveys a change in use or function of those sites, thus bringing beauty out of blight.

scholarly journals Utracone, poszukiwane i odzyskane dziedzictwo kulturowe Łodzi przemysłowej na przykładzie Art_Inkubatora w Fabryce Sztuki*

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Moreno-Kamińska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Business Enterprise ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Cultural Institution ◽  
The Past ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Central District ◽  
Post Industrial

Over the past 25 years, Łódź has seen an evolution in attitude towards the city’s post-industrial heritage, both material and non-material. Exemplifying these processes of loss, seeking, and retrieval is Art_Inkubator, a complex of 19th-century factories in the city’s central district of Księży Młyn that once belonged to Karol Scheibler and Ludwik Grohman. The goal of the project, carried out by a municipal cultural institution known as Fabryka Sztuki, has been to revitalize and adapt former factory buildings, including them in its incubator program dedicated to the support of activities within the creative industries sector. Another cultural heritage site known as MuseumABC is also located in this area. Fabryka Sztuki’s efforts have preserved the factory buildings as part of the city’s cultural heritage and made it possible to put their historic features to good use in the development of innovative and creative activities. After decades of neglect, the characteristic red-brick buildings have beengiven “new life” as centres of culture and business enterprise.

The Culture Zone in Katowice and its qualities as a public space

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-41
Author(s):  
Paweł Pistelok
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Upper Silesia ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Basic Rights ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Right Of Access

Abstract A city’s public spaces ought to meet a number of requirements to serve their main purpose, that is to foster public life. They need, for instance, to answer people’s needs, fulfil certain social functions, and let people use their basic rights, among them the most important right of access. In Katowice, one of the most prominent examples of the regeneration of public spaces is now the Culture Zone. The aim of this paper is to discuss the development of social functions in the area mentioned, a fine example of the post-industrial heritage of Upper Silesia. Applying some of the qualities of public space identified in the theories adopted, the paper discusses how the Culture Zone [in Polish: Strefa Kultury] fulfils the above-mentioned demands and requirements. Is it accessible? Does it meet the need for comfort? Does it function as a leisure space? By referring to analyses and opinions presented in the literature and comparing them with the results of the author’s own empirical research, this article discusses the importance, opportunities, and shortcomings of the Culture Zone as a public space.

scholarly journals A Preliminary Study on Industrial Landscape Planning and Spatial Layout in Belgium

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1375-1387
Author(s):  
Jiazhen Zhang ◽  
Jeremy Cenci ◽  
Vincent Becue
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
Development Route ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Tourism

As the material carrier of industrial heritage, industrial landscape planning integrates industrial heritage, post-industrial, and industrial tourism landscapes. In this study, we define the concept of industrial landscape planning. As a subsystem of urban planning, we study industrial landscape planning by using the theories and methods of urban planning. As an example, we consider Belgium and identify the main categories of industrial landscape planning as industrial heritage landscape and industrial tourism landscape. We use an ArcGIS spatial analysis tool and kernel density calculations and reveal the characteristics of four clusters of industrial heritage spatial layout in Belgium, which match its located industrial development route. Each cluster has unique regional characteristics that were spontaneously formed according to existing social and natural resources. At the level of urban planning, there is a lack of unified re-creation. Urban planning is relatively separated from the protection of industrial heritage in Belgium.

scholarly journals Transformation Directions of Brownfields: The Case of the Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2075
Author(s):  
Sławomir Pytel ◽  
Sławomir Sitek ◽  
Marta Chmielewska ◽  
Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko ◽  
Anna Runge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
Mine Dumps ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Settling Ponds ◽  
Depth Interviews

Brownfields are remnants of the functional and spatial transformations of urban areas in Poland. They are particularly abundant in old industrial districts, based on coal mining and metallurgy. The aim of this study is to identify the transformation directions and functional changes of brownfields in the former Upper Silesian Industrial Region in southern Poland, which has evolved into the Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolis (GZM) through the process of socio-economic transformation. The study makes use of the χ2 test of independence and Cramer’s V as a post-test, and the method of in-depth interviews. The results indicate that the most popular new functions of post-industrial sites are production and services. When we consider large brownfields such as, in particular, disused mine dumps, dumping sites, settling ponds and workings, the most popular new form of land use is green spaces. Moreover, the study shows that the size of brownfields impacts their new forms of land use.

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.

Intoxifying gentrification: brew pubs and the geography of post-industrial heritage

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Mathews ◽  
Roger M. Picton
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Post Industrial

Ecological Transforming in Industrial Heritage Site: Quarry Park Proposal for Sustainable Development

2012 ◽  
Vol 178-181 ◽  
pp. 934-942
Author(s):  
Qian Yi Zhu ◽  
Yu Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Transformation Strategy

The thesis attempt to illustrate two things and their relationship in the city— industrial heritage and ecological urbanism— by focusing on the transformation in industrial heritage site. It starts with the definition of industrial heritage and quarry what is prepare for the later dissertation. From the theory to the case, this thesis tries to explain the questions: How the industrial element and ecological element work on the city together? Why propose in industry heritage site? Why it needs to be changed? After finding its potential and disbennifit, paper gives the answer that how to changes. Finally, the proposal in Lockport is introduced as a case for the ecological transformation strategy of industrial heritage site.

scholarly journals Success and Applied Tools in Post-industrial Rehabilitations

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Anna Adorján
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Planner ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Steel Works

Abstract The problem of brownfields has become an increasingly important issue in Hungary – these urban areas have great potential for reuse, presenting a major challenge for landscape architects. As a landscape designer and urban planner, in this paper I am trying to answer the question why certain rehabilitated site work better than others, what the strengths of one or the other are. In search of sustainability in brownfield rehabilitations, I am analysing 5 selected post-industrial sites, and compare them with the undergoing rehabilitation of the Ózd Steel Works.

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