scholarly journals Post-Industrial Land Transformation - An Approach to Sociocultural Aspects as Catalysts for Urban Redevelopment

10.5772/36380 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lus Loures ◽  
Jon Burley
Keyword(s):  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Land Transformation ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
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.

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

The heritagization of post-industrial re-development and social inclusion in Amsterdam

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda van de Kamp
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Post Industrial

Abstract The histories of former industrial urban areas offer a contested and ambiguous framework for urban redevelopment. Whilst the newly emerged creative industries are framed in continuity with an industrial past, cultural heritage is being mobilized by different actors to authenticate or to contest the redevelopment of working-class neighbourhoods. This article explores the ongoing transformation of post-industrial Amsterdam North, an area that has become subject to active urban redevelopment since the 2000s. Based on ethnographic material, this study examines how 'heritage as development' ‐ based on cosmopolitan ideals of social inclusion ‐ reinforces a process of heritagization grounded on cultural rights that involves working-class memories of solidarity and dissent. I argue that the Amsterdam case complicates dualist interpretations of gentrification and heritagization as processes of categorizing individuals as 'winners' and 'losers'. Heritage practices tend to reinforce cultural differences that produce feelings of exclusion rather than inclusion, but also offer pathways for emancipation and a re-appropriation of local heritage for long-term working-class residents.

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