Extreme sites: the greening of brownfield

Publication Year

1996

Document Status

Withdrawn

Abstract

Tackles green issues on a large scale and asks how on regenerated sites the demands of the natural ecology might be balanced with the redevelopment for human activities.In many major cities the only large tracts of land available are those made toxic through a recipe of urbanism, industry and science- from our great water thoroughfares to rubbish landfills. Thus the treatment of brownfield sites has become a pressing issue for national and local government, urban planners, developers and designers. This publication seeks an alternative in proposing an unprecedented weaving together of the naturalist and urbanist. It effectively brings together those in the vanguard of conceptualising this situation from a multiplicity of viewpoints and disciplines.

Author

Gans, D. and Weisz, C. (eds)

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