Essays about: "Brownfield transformation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Brownfield transformation.
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1. Cultivating Community - Exploring an urban design proposal merging food production with future development for sustainable living.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljöAbstract : With the global population projected to reach eight billion by 2022, the world faces significant challenges associated with rapid urbanization. The migration of individuals from rural to urban areas in search of improved opportunities exacerbates the strain on resources, posing obstacles such as housing shortages, infrastructure demands, and food scarcity in growing cities. READ MORE
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2. Reconnecting Gävle’s Delta : a post-industrial urban transformation project for Sweden’s coastal landscape
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : This speculative design-led research project addresses the challenges of transforming dilapidated post-industrial brownfield sites into thriving, sustainable, resilient urban neighbourhoods. Tasked with allocating urban growth, municipality planning departments increasingly look towards underused but centrally located industrial sites for future development. READ MORE
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3. THE NEW 'GOOD': Exploring a new urban lifestyle that would ensure us with a resilient future in central Stavanger, Norway
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljöAbstract : We want to have a good life! In fact, this is the core of urbanism and the reason why we keep building and constantly improving our cities. The ideal of how we wanted to live has changed through the time and developed into a form many people are satisfied with. But there is so much behind us living this ‘good life’. READ MORE
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4. Between the tracks. Reclaiming an abandoned railyard in Gdynia, Poland
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljöAbstract : “Between the tracks” builds upon the concept of reclaiming a brownfield. It explores what can happen when industrial activity vacates valuable land in the city center. Through urban recycling, the project unlocks the value of an underutilized railyard and reimagines the last, such a large, and free area in the center of Gdynia in Poland. READ MORE
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5. Sustainable urban districts: Identifying success factors and their (potential) implications for the transformation of Sege Park, Malmö
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : This thesis identifies factors for success and un-success in European sustainable urban development projects and subsequently aims to correlate them with the characteristics and practices of an on-going project, concluding in a set of policy recommendations. Worldwide urbanisation brings a concentration of activities contributing to environmental degradation and social injustice, which implies the need for implementing sustainable development practices in urban planning. READ MORE