In the Czech Republic, but elsewhere in the world, there are areas, buildings or complexes that have lost their previous use and have been dilapidated or used little. This diploma thesis aims to map out how big brownfield problems are in individual regions of the Czech Republic and whether the regions themselves help to solve this unsatisfactory situation. The partial objective was to evaluate the use of available financial resources provided by the European Union in the 2007-2013 programming period for projects related to brownfield regeneration in the Czech Republic.

The conversion of industrial waste sites, also known as brownfields, into sustainable green space can impact the surrounding community in a number of ways. This thesis is a compilation of three case studies in low-income areas of Los Angeles which have all experienced a brownfield to green space conversion. All three projects are dictated by various stakeholders and are located at the intersection of economic and environmental issues. I examine how the stakeholders of these projects affect the process and design and in turn how the process and design affects the community surrounding the site. Additionally this thesis sheds light on how the social, environment and economic implications of these projects change depending on the structural paradigms behind them.

Emerging trends in the re-inhabitation of central cities and government funding of numerous financial incentives have succeeded in making brownfield redevelopment a far more lucrative opportunity for developers over the past decade. However, the redevelopment process itself remains virtually unchanged, maintaining a narrow focus on environmental remediation, site engineering, and short-term market demand. Land use, instead of design, drives the entire process. This approach fails to sustain development and recognize larger redevelopment opportunities based on local and regional context. Despite an increasing amount of public money used to fund incentives, development continues to overlook potential positive externalities presumably to avert risk and increase feasibility. The purpose of this thesis is to re-examine brownfield redevelopment from the perspective of urban design in order to define ways in which design might offer solutions to these shortcomings and play a more critical role in future redevelopments. Using case studies of past redevelopments of former auto plant sites, Landscape Urbanism in brownfield redevelopment, and design proposals for auto plant sites from the GM and Ford closings of 2005-2006, the thesis investigates three primary questions. First, what is the conventional brownfield redevelopment process, to what extent has urban design been involved, and what are the major issues and lessons that can be learned? Secondly, what examples of brownfield redevelopment have integrated urban design to addresses these issues and what are the specific principles that inform design? Finally, how can urban design strategies, based on principles of Landscape Urbanism, lead the redevelopment of brownfield sites?

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-10-12Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:44:43Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000735236.pdf: 18914006 bytes, checksum: 1f0aaabbff4fe1ff57f65641879c8010 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Após a década de 1950, com o advento das rodovias e o declínio das atividades ferroviárias no estado de São Paulo, muitas indústrias fecharam suas portas ou mudaram-se da capital para a região metropolitana ou para o interior do estado, acompanhando as rodovias. Os galpões, imóveis e adjacências da ferrovia, antes movimentada pela economia cafeeira, e depois pela economia industrial, não mais serviam, e o entorno ferroviário começou a ser tomado por um conjunto de áreas ociosas, hoje em estado de subutilização e degradação. Este processo pode ser identificado nos bairros de passado fabril na cidade de São Paulo, como por exemplo, os bairros Mooca, Vila Prudente e Ipiranga, onde grande parte de suas áreas estão nas adjacências da linha férrea, formando áreas aqui denominadas brownfields ferroviários. Este trabalho analisou estas áreas com o uso de geotecnologias a fim de subsidiar diretrizes inseridas nas políticas públicas de grandes cidades como São Paulo. A identificação espacial dos brownfields ferroviários, atualmente, e o entendimento do seu papel atual na cidade mostrou-se muito importante para a implantação de projetos de refuncionalização. Para tanto, foram utilizados métodos envolvendo geoprocessamento com banco de dados espacial para a identificação dos brownfields ferroviários no decorrer das últimas décadas. A comparação das fotografias aéreas da década de 1970 com imagens orbitais mais recentes, de 2009, possibilitaram visualizar a transformação da paisagem ferroviária. Assim como, as imagens orbitais de alta resolução possibilitaram a identificação dos brownfields ferroviários à medida que foram atribuídas os procedimentos adequados, incluindo coleta de dados, técnicas de classificação digital automática e trabalhos de campo. O uso das geotecnologias direcionadas a projetos de refuncionalização dos brownfields ferroviários apresentou-se como um importante aliado na... / After 1950 decade, with the advent of the highways and the decline of the railways in the State of São Paulo, many industries closed its doors or moved from the capital to the metropolitan region or to the inner region of the State, following the highways. The warehouses, real estate and adjacencies of the railroad, formerly busy due to the coffee economy and later because of the industrial economy, were no longer useful, and the vicinities of the railroad started to be taken by a set of idle areas, today in degradation or underused state. This process can be identified in the districts with an industrial past in the city of São Paulo as, for example, the districts of Mooca, Vila Prudente and Ipiranga, where there are large regions in the vicinity of the railroad, forming areas here denominated railway brownfields. This work analyzed these areas using geotechnology, aiming to subsidize guidelines inserted in public policies of big cities as São Paulo. The spatial identification of the railway brownfields and the understanding of its actual role in the city revealed itself very important to the implementation of refunctionalization projects. To fulfill this, methods involving geoprocessing with spatial data bank of the railway brownfields throughout last decades were used. The comparison between the aerial photographs of the 1970 decade with more recent ones of 2009, turned possible to visualize the transformation of the railway landscape. The high resolution orbital images allowed the identification of the railway brownfields to the extent that the proper procedures were applied, including data gathering, automated technical classification techniques and field work. The use of geotechnologies applied to projects of railway brownfields refunctionalization presented as an important ally to the implementations plans in actual degraded railway areas, showing that obscure points from the railway borders may have basis to become dynamic...

Orientador: Magda Adelaide Lombardo / Banca: Andréia Medinilha Pancher / Banca: Maria Isabel C. de Freitas / Banca: Amanda Ramalho Vasques / Banca: Ailton Luchiari / Resumo: Após a década de 1950, com o advento das rodovias e o declínio das atividades ferroviárias no estado de São Paulo, muitas indústrias fecharam suas portas ou mudaram-se da capital para a região metropolitana ou para o interior do estado, acompanhando as rodovias. Os galpões, imóveis e adjacências da ferrovia, antes movimentada pela economia cafeeira, e depois pela economia industrial, não mais serviam, e o entorno ferroviário começou a ser tomado por um conjunto de áreas ociosas, hoje em estado de subutilização e degradação. Este processo pode ser identificado nos bairros de passado fabril na cidade de São Paulo, como por exemplo, os bairros Mooca, Vila Prudente e Ipiranga, onde grande parte de suas áreas estão nas adjacências da linha férrea, formando áreas aqui denominadas brownfields ferroviários. Este trabalho analisou estas áreas com o uso de geotecnologias a fim de subsidiar diretrizes inseridas nas políticas públicas de grandes cidades como São Paulo. A identificação espacial dos brownfields ferroviários, atualmente, e o entendimento do seu papel atual na cidade mostrou-se muito importante para a implantação de projetos de refuncionalização. Para tanto, foram utilizados métodos envolvendo geoprocessamento com banco de dados espacial para a identificação dos brownfields ferroviários no decorrer das últimas décadas. A comparação das fotografias aéreas da década de 1970 com imagens orbitais mais recentes, de 2009, possibilitaram visualizar a transformação da paisagem ferroviária. Assim como, as imagens orbitais de alta resolução possibilitaram a identificação dos brownfields ferroviários à medida que foram atribuídas os procedimentos adequados, incluindo coleta de dados, técnicas de classificação digital automática e trabalhos de campo. O uso das geotecnologias direcionadas a projetos de refuncionalização dos brownfields ferroviários apresentou-se como um importante aliado na... / Abstract: After 1950 decade, with the advent of the highways and the decline of the railways in the State of São Paulo, many industries closed its doors or moved from the capital to the metropolitan region or to the inner region of the State, following the highways. The warehouses, real estate and adjacencies of the railroad, formerly busy due to the coffee economy and later because of the industrial economy, were no longer useful, and the vicinities of the railroad started to be taken by a set of idle areas, today in degradation or underused state. This process can be identified in the districts with an industrial past in the city of São Paulo as, for example, the districts of Mooca, Vila Prudente and Ipiranga, where there are large regions in the vicinity of the railroad, forming areas here denominated railway brownfields. This work analyzed these areas using geotechnology, aiming to subsidize guidelines inserted in public policies of big cities as São Paulo. The spatial identification of the railway brownfields and the understanding of its actual role in the city revealed itself very important to the implementation of refunctionalization projects. To fulfill this, methods involving geoprocessing with spatial data bank of the railway brownfields throughout last decades were used. The comparison between the aerial photographs of the 1970 decade with more recent ones of 2009, turned possible to visualize the transformation of the railway landscape. The high resolution orbital images allowed the identification of the railway brownfields to the extent that the proper procedures were applied, including data gathering, automated technical classification techniques and field work. The use of geotechnologies applied to projects of railway brownfields refunctionalization presented as an important ally to the implementations plans in actual degraded railway areas, showing that obscure points from the railway borders may have basis to become dynamic... / Doutor

Orientador: Prof. Dr. Dácio Roberto Matheus / Coorientadora. Profª. Drª. Giulliana Mondelli / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia Ambiental, Santo André, 2018. / A área destinada ao Projeto Urbano "Eixo Tamanduatehy" - PET, no município de Santo André - SP, foi palco de grandes transformações na dinâmica de ocupação e transformação territorial no uso de solo, ligadas a questões históricas com raízes socioeconômicas e também políticas, tanto ao contexto nacional quanto internacional. Santo André passou por um intenso processo de industrialização entre as décadas de 1920 e 1970, onde passou então a vivenciar um processo de desconcentração industrial, devido a diversos fatores: incentivos do poder público para interiorização do desenvolvimento industrial, reestruturação produtiva no setor industrial e diminuição das plantas fabris. Este processo acarretou na existência de grandes áreas industriais vazias, subutilizadas e passivos ambientais que impediam sua comercialização e o cumprimento de sua função social. O estudo visou caracterizar e identificar as áreas contaminadas durante o período de 2002 a 2017 na área que compreende a junção entre o perímetro destinado à Zona de Reestruturação Urbana (ZREU), o antigo perímetro destinado ao Eixo Tamanduateí e também a sua nova delimitação, estipulada pela nova Lei de Uso e Ocupação do Solo (LUOPS), através da Lei nº 9.924/2016 e realizar estudos mais aprofundados através da análise de 17 processos da Companhia Ambiental do Estado de São Paulo (CETESB). O objetivo principal foi compreender a dimensão e a implicação que a existência de áreas contaminadas podem representar para o novo uso do solo, para a requalificação e reestruturação urbana a fim de encontrar soluções e subsídios para a tomada de decisões das partes interessadas, de modo a garantir a função social da propriedade. O estudo mostrou que parte das áreas com o uso anterior industrial, têm sido remediadas principalmente para o uso residencial, comercial e institucional (educacional) e em sua maioria, fizeram parte da segunda etapa de escalonamento de aplicação do Parcelamento, Edificação e Utilização Compulsórios (PEUC). As áreas suspeitas, com potencial de contaminação e brownfields não têm sido mapeados pelos órgãos ambientais competentes e a articulação entre as partes interessadas não tem se mostrado efetiva para diminuir o tempo de remediação, bem como para promover uma remediação e revitalização mais sustentável das áreas analisadas. / The area destined to the Urban Project Axis Tamanduatehy - PET, in the city of Santo André - SP, was the scene of great transformations in the occupation dynamics and territorial transformation in land use, which are linked to historical issues with socioeconomic and political roots, both to the national and international context. Santo André underwent an intense process of industrialization between the 1920s and 1970s, where it began to experience an industrial deconcentration process, due to several factors: public power incentives to take industrial development to the countryside, productive restructuring in the industrial sector and production plants decrease. This process led to the existence of large empty, underutilized industrial areas and environmental liabilities that impeded its commercialization and the fulfillment of its social function. The study aimed to characterize and identify contaminated areas during the period from 2002 to 2017 in the area that includes the junction between the perimeter for the Urban Restructuring Zone (ZREU), the former perimeter for the Tamanduateí Hub and also its new delimitation, stipulated through the new Land Use and Occupancy Law (LUOPS), through Law no. 9,924 / 2016 and to carry out more indepth studies through the analysis of 17 processes of the Environmental Company of the State of São Paulo (CETESB). The main objective was to understand the dimension and the implication that the existence of contaminated areas may represent for the new land use, for the requalification and urban restructuring in order to find solutions and subsidies for the stakeholder's decision-making, in order to ensure the social function of property. The study showed that part of the areas with the industrial previous use have been mainly remediated for residential, commercial and institutional (educational) use and, for the most part, they were part of the second stage of scheduling application of Compulsory Installment, Building and Use (PEUC). Suspected areas, contamination potential areas and brownfields have not been mapped by the relevant environmental agencies and the stakeholder articulation has not shown to be effective in reducing remediation time, as well as to promote a more sustainable remediation and revitalization of the analyzed areas.

This research develops eight recommendations for amendments to key Ontario legislation affecting Brownfield redevelopment that, if implemented, will reduce the liability and risk associated with the development of contaminated land and benefit stakeholders, such as, municipalities and developers. Utilizing the methodology of law and economics, this research examines the legal landscape in Ontario and expands the dialogue regarding the risks of developing contaminated land. Through this examination, this research uncovers the origins of the risks of Brownfield redevelopment and extrapolates recommendations for amendments to legislation and policy that balance the liability of Brownfield redevelopment with the protection of the environment. Recent developments in environmental law appear to increase environmental protection, but actually limit Brownfield redevelopment in Ontario by increasing liability and costs. The polluter pays principle that has been entrenched in Canadian law has governed the law in respect of contaminated lands for decades. However, as society evolves, the common law is forced to re-evaluate environmental protection in the face of contaminated lands. This evolution of the law is an attempt to intervene to correct a market failure that exists with respect to contaminated lands. The increased liability associated with Brownfield redevelopment translates into heightened costs to redevelop the land, which also severely threatens environmental justice in Ontario. The recommendations in this research will benefit stakeholders, the public, and the environment. With respect to stakeholders, it will be of assistance to municipalities, cities, developers, corporations, secured lenders, mortgage insurers and the government. The risks associated with Brownfield redevelopment can be offset by the recommended corrections to legislation regarding liability and stronger policies that create accessible programs and incentives to promote just, innovative, and sustainable redevelopment.

The subject of the diploma thesis is the application of an intensive urban house on brownfield sites in Brno in the context of urban areas utilization in the 21st century. The goal is to maximize land use for a wide range of functions while eliminating motor traffic and creating a quiet habitation area in the middle of greenery near the city center. The multiplicity and porosity principles are used to achieve the high density of the site - the area of the land is multiplied by with a green platform at the level of the third floor. The site is intersected by the newly undulated river Ponávka. On the bank there is created a park, which forms the heart of the area. It continues with roofed passages with shops.

The image of the postindustrial city is formed by public spaces (streets, plazas and squares, parks, riverfronts and waterfronts) together with a wide range of underused urban spaces and long-term unused areas of stalled spaces. The subject of this work is research of different types of urban gardening spaces and their optimal spatial, operational and functional parameters in the context of urbanism and urban planning. The aim is to apply them to the structure of unused urban spaces. On the basis of the case studies included in the research, the success of placement of individual community projects in different types of public spaces and stalled spaces is assessed. Recommendations for planning practice are based on these evaluations. The results of the work show that spaces with possibilities of horticultural production are a suitable solution for the temporary and also long-term use of under-utilized urban areas with many benefits in social, economic and environmental areas.