After the passage of several decades of having the experience of employing regeneration plans through conservation and development, examining the results of these policies can be a topic for extensive investigations. These are the topics that inattention toward them has so far resulted in the circumstances in which not only regeneration plans have been frustrated in the realization of their obj...

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Urban regeneration has proved to be a testing and on-going challenge for both central government and local authorities within the UK and successful solutions have proved to be elusive, at best partial rather than comprehensive and often difficult to sustain. Long-term structural economic decline, the continuing shift from a manufacturing to a service and knowledge based economy, the relentless ...

The possibility of revitalization of abandoned or insufficiently used industrial and commercial facilities and areas in towns, known as brownfield incentives, is analyzed in the paper. These facilities and areas are most often situated in central parts of towns, and their revitalisation results in creation of new facilities which often become symbols or landmarks of such towns. The meaning of b...

In this paper, results are reported of a technology assessment of the use and integration of decentralized energy systems and storage devices in an urban renewal area. First the general context of a different approach based on 'rethinking' and the incorporation of ongoing integration of coming economical and environmental interests on infrastructure, in relation to the sustainable urban develop...

The increasing importance of sustainability in town planning and architectural design is strongly questioning the actual logic of built environment dispersion. The peripheral extension of cities is indeed leading to irrational uses of ground, growing environmental impacts and important infrastructural costs. Looked at from that point of view, the goal of the Ecoparc project is the regeneration ...

Urban planning and change in the last century has been guided by concepts of Modernity rooted in the Age of Enlightenment that placed the needs of "rational man" at the core of human endeavors of all kinds. Yet, rather than leading to aesthetically beautiful cities characterized by sustainable resource utilization processes, the anthropocentric approach to urban and economic development has cre...