Thesis (M. S.)--Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. / Committee Chair: Richard Dagenhart; Committee Member: Dan Immergluck; Committee Member: David Green

Thesis (M.Arch.) - Carleton University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Diploma thesis "Revitalization of specific areas of industrial and military brownfields" is divided in two parts. In teoretical part, there are defined brownfields and connected terms. Then are brownfields divided according to several aspects, thesis also solve revitalization, mapping and financial issues. Practical part of thesis characterizes one indrustral and one military brownfield, desribes history and recent condition and possibilities of their future use.

The diploma thesis deals with the issue of brownfields in urban environments and is focused on brownfields in Brno. The potential of brownfields is presented on a concrete example of the revitalization. In a work was chosen brownfields located in the city of Brno. Then was created the project of its revitalization. This brownfields is located in the Pisárecké Valley between the Anthropos Pavilion and the recreation area of the Riviera. Project is made in two versions. The first variant deals only with area of this brownfields, the second variant deals with this brownfields and its closed areal. This area was also previously led as a brownfields area. The revitalization project is based on historical and qualitative dispositions of the com-plex. Also take into account the spatial plan of Brno and the results of the survey. A visual design of the brownfields revitalizations was created using AutoCAD software to compare the situation before and after the revitalizations. Also was created a plan of costing and plan of timetable of planned revitalization. The study also presented problems of available databases of brownfields. After analys-ing an available information has been proposed a plan of comprehensive database.

The thesis deals with the issue of post-project analysis within the EIA process. Post-project analysis is one of the most important stages of the EIA process, which allows us to consider the process for good and closed. Evaluates the status of the project and whether its effects correspond to the effects of the expected range and have been complied with measures to mitigate the adverse impacts of the project on the environment. This paper aims to describe the EIA process, including poprojektového evaluating impacts on the golf course Beroun and evaluate to what extent it affects the environment. In the practical part post-project analysis Beroun golf course through the analysis of EIA documentation with evaluation of the effectiveness of implemented measures. To achieve the objective of this work was important to select appropriate indicators for determining post-implementation controls predictions with the actual situation and on the basis of the experience gained and the collected data to develop recommendations for handling post-project analysis similar plans.

The theme of this diploma thesis is dedicated to the concept generally known as brownfields, how we call the industrial buildings or entire production areas which for various reasons have ceased to serve its purpose and deteriorate. This phenomenon is increasinly urgent topic of discussions since the fast surface development of settlements results in the incorporation of buildings formerly located at the settlements edges to the inner parts of the settlements urbanism. These objects may be subject to decay as well as the development of the specific areas in which they are located. There are many places with this fate in Prague, however as the most interesting site I have chosen a waterfront in the city center which formerly served as a transshipment and a storage of building materials. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the potential of the selected site, creating a project proposal, that would be the benefit for city residents. The selected location is a released space in the heart of the city and thus provides a unique opportunity to dedicate this area to all citizens as a public space and not to succumb to private interests. The used methods for gaining the outcome of the thesis include reading the literature on given topic, writing of research and development of analytical data or site research. Thanks to these methods the first options for solutions can be defined in its primary forms for creating a project study. For these reasons the thesis is separated into the text and project part. Design of the study is to revitalize the waterfront and restore it into a park which is used for both social life and recreation. Recreation is possible in its active as well as passive form on the multifunctional surface of the residential lawns of the river banks. In the urban planning of the city the contact with the river is a unique spatial experience which can´t be offered by a street or a square. Once we grasp the river area not only as the line ashore but also as the development across the board, the river area offers also other ways to develop the recreational function. The direct involvement of the water element, with the assistance of the architectural elements as sitting stairs, piers, pontoons or ships is maximally exploiting the potential of the site. Bank as a space that belongs to the river, which is flooded at regular intervals, is not possible to build up or land the bankside vegetation without previous thought. For this reason the proposal suggests only airy solution with minimalist vegetation across the direction of the water stream to serve as least as possible as the barrier during floods. Part of the study design itself is a functional and project proposal for the reconstruction of the crushing plant of the former dumping grounds, which must surely be maintained in their original form as the link to the former inhabitants and their heritage for present generations in the historical industrial district. For the building of the crushing plant I suggest a new way of functional use, which is friendly to this building of monument protection, preserving maximum of its appearance and at the same time can also provide a financial return. As the new service inside of this brownfield object I suggest climbing walls to be placed in the reinforced concreete tubes which connects the idea of preserving the industrial heritage with the idea to establish a new community site designated for recreation. I see the contribution of this thesis in the fact that the idea of the classical urban park is developed in a way which uses all the facilities offered by the presence of water so that the unique character of this location is supported for common good. I believe I have chosen frugal and therefore stable form of usage for this brownfield object, that would have the capability of a long-term survival and for this purpose enrich not only the urban life, but provides the cashflow too.

The thesis deals with the revitalisation of military brownfields located within the city Cheb. The objective of the thesis is to find the possible variants of the new use of the locality and evaluate them by using the multiple-criteria decision analysis. In the theoretical part of the thesis there is characterized the term of brownfields and the area characterized. Methodical part includes the description of the process of multiple-criteria decision analysis. In the final practical part there are the variants of the new use of the locality suggested, as well as defined there are the criteria for decision making including determination of the importance defined and on the basis of mathematical model there is the most suitable variant chosen.

This master thesis, entitled "Brownfields - comparison of rural areas of Pelhřimov and Jihlava" focuses on the issue of brownfields, their typology, their characteristics and the terms associated with them. Core of the whole work was a field survey of selected municipalities in the Pelhřimov and Jihlava districts in which these objects were searched. Based on these empirical data, areas were compared not only with each other, but also with the public register of brownfields. The impact of brownfields on the quality of life of local populations emerged from the results of a simple survey. The aim of the thesis was to map the occurrence of brownfields in designated areas and the subsequent comparison between the evidence and the actual state.

This diploma thesis focuses on the issues concerning one specific agricultural and two industrial brownfields. The theoretical part defines the concept of a brownfield, its categorization, causes of occurrence, consequences of the existence of brownfields, the revitalization of brownfields, available financial resources for their re-use and also the involvement of brownfields in the process of spatial planning. In the analytical part, the former industrial complex Tesla, the former agricultural complex Grana and the former industrial premises of Jitex are thoroughly discussed. Each brownfield is described from the historical point of view and with respect to its state at the present time. A feasible way of revitalization is proposed for each brownfield. One of these three proposals is then selected as the best one for implementation and is analysed in detail with respect to its financial difficulty and the possibility of using public resources.

Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais da Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense - UNESC, como requisito parcial para a obtenção do título de Mestre em Ciências Ambientais. / This study sought to understand the role of industrial urban voids – Brownfields - in the current configuration of the contemporary cities and their importance as potential for improvement of the urban environment, within an interdisciplinary vision. In this way the present study investigated the causes of its origins supported by historical rescue, as well as to investigate how they are treated and the fate of these spaces that emerge in the current contemporary urban landscape, highlighting the importance of and their redeveloped brownfields. The comprehensiveness of the search space is located in the city of Criciúma/SC, marked by strong environmental degradation and urbanization process in the first half of the 20th century, linked to the coal mining industry, having diversified its economy from the second half of the century by the ceramic industry consolidation. Have been identified and studied within the urban space of Criciúma industrial urban voids – industrial Brownfields-arising from deactivation of industry ventures linked to the coal sector in three specific conditions: those who find themselves in a State of disrepair, those who were redeveloped and those who are in the redeveloping process. In these studies were evaluated the causes for the appearance and the fate of urban industrial vacuums – Brownfields -, showing through academic testing a possible alternative to reconversion and redevelopment of an area that is in a State of disrepair due to the coal industry. From the studies carried out it was possible to understand the importance of the reintegration of those idle spaces to daily life in the city and its appropriation by the local society. / Este estudo buscou compreender o papel dos vazios urbanos industriais – Brownfields - na atual configuração das cidades contemporâneas e sua importância enquanto potencialidade para melhoria do meio ambiente urbano, dentro de uma visão interdisciplinar. Para tanto procurou estudar as causas de suas origens amparadas pelo resgate histórico, assim como investigou a forma como são tratados e o destino destes espaços que despontam na atual paisagem urbana contemporânea, evidenciando a importância de e sua refuncionalização. O recorte espacial da pesquisa é a cidade de Criciúma/SC, marcada pela forte degradação ambiental e cujo processo de urbanização na primeira metade do século XX encontra-se vinculado à exploração extrativista de carvão mineral e que diversificou sua economia a partir segunda metade do século, quando indústria cerâmica se consolidou Foram identificados e estudados dentro do espaço urbano de Criciúma vazios urbanos industriais – Brownfields -, decorrentes da desativação de empreendimentos da industria ligados ao setor carbonífero em três condições específicas: aqueles que se encontram em estado de abandono, os que foram refuncionalizados e os que se encontram em processo de refuncionalização. Nos estudos, foram avaliadas as causas para o surgimento e o destino dos vazios urbanos industriais - Brownfields -, demonstrando-se por meio de ensaio acadêmico, uma possível alternativa de reconversão e refuncionalização de uma área que encontra-se em estado de abandono decorrente da indústria carbonífera. A partir dos estudos realizados foi possível compreender a importância da reintegração desses espaços ociosos ao cotidiano da cidade e sua apropriação pela sociedade local.