- Perception of the Industrial Areas Conversion in Romanian Cities- Indicator of Human Settlements Sustainability  534 kb |
by Saghin, Irina & Ioja, Cristian & Gavrilidis, Athanasios Alexandru | irina_saghin@yahoo.fr  |
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| Short Outline |
| In Romania, the post-communist period has meant enabling the conversion processes. Most of the industrial areas have changed their function, engendering territorial imbalances that especially affected the residents’ quality of life. |
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| Abstract |
| The study assesses people’s perception on how the active industrial sites were converted in the post-communist period and on the perceived impacts. The evaluation of the population and public authorities’ perception was achieved by applying questionnaires in 15 Romanian industrial cities, being under various stages of managing the conversion processes (total or partial abandonment, conversion to other functions, reconversion, maintenance of the initial activity). The population and the public authorities’ perception towards the conversion processes of the industrial areas illustrates the random and opportunistic evolution specific for the post-communist period, that didn’t take into account the social, economic and environmental risks. By not integrating the population’s perception in the approach for the conversion processes of the industrial sites, the accumulation of social tensions was favored. On the other side, in most of the situations, the industrial conversion meant inserting superior functions from an urban, social, economic and environmental point of view. Hereby, the human settlements’ sustainability depends on the way the conversion process of the industrial sites are managed and on how the new function is accepted by the population and satisfies its needs. |
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| Keywords |
| industrial sites conversion, perception, sustainability, Romania |
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| Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2012: Fast Forward: Planning in a (hyper) dynamic urban context |
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