- Urban Regeneration through Industrial Restructuring of Brownfields in the Local Economies of Post Communist Countries. Case Study: Romania   click here to open paper content2251 kb
by    Saghin, Irina & Ioja, Cristian & Gavrilidis, Athanasios Alexandru | irinasaghin@gmail.com   click here to send an email to the auther(s) of this paper
Short Outline
Romanian disposed industrial sites have produced various imbalances with
several inferences in the sustainable territorial planning. The analysis of
the places suitable for the conservation of the industrial heritage
represents the focus of the study
Abstract
Romanian disposed industrial sites have produced serious environmental
(soil contamination), social (e.g. unemployment, gender numerical
differences) and economical imbalances with several inferences in the
sustainable territorial planning. Between the industries that have
generated during the time severe problems, the main ones are the
petrochemical, the chemical, the car industry, the metallurgy industry, all
of them now being modified from a functional and structural point of view.
The rehabilitation of these sites is often a difficult one and it is due to
the duality of structural and functional change, to the differences between
rehabilitation and conservation of industrial heritage. The study takes
into consideration two main municipalities in Romania, one (Campina) that
has been remarkable during the time for its petrochemical industry and
nowadays has to cope with the problem of polluted sites that need large
amounts of money to be cleaned and the other one (Suceava) known for the
variety of industrial activities and its productivity before 1990 that has
the tendency to transform the industrial platform into a commercial area.
This paper tries to identify the places where the industry can be taken
into account as an industrial heritage and also tries to establish which
industries have economic potential to interfere with the local environment
and create a basic structure for analyzing the existing industrial values
in comparison with the activities that were already achieved.
Keywords
industrial heritage, conservation,imbalance
Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2011: LIVEABLE CITIES: URBANISING WORLD, Meeting the Challenge
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