Beauty redeemed recycling post-industrial landscapes Ellen Braae

• Coping with post-industrial sites is a pressing issue throughout Europe and North America. One point of departure for their general rediscovery was the revitalisation by Latz + Partner in the early 1990s of an abandoned steelworks as Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord; industrial relics were not demolished but seen as integral parts of the overall concept and imbued with new meanings and uses. Many more projects with a similar approach have since been executed and this book presents a selection of the most seminal, such as Chemetoff's Île de Nantes, Parc del Clot in Barcelona, Hargreaves/PROAP's Parque do Tejo e Tranca̋o in Lisbon and Michel Desvigne's Parc aux Angéliques in Bordeaux. Beauty Redeemed offers a systematic framework for the consideration and use of post-industrial sites. The author, Professor of Landscape Design at Copenhagen University, places these 'leftovers' in their broad historical and aesthetic context, proceeding from the 19th-century Romantic fascination with ruins through present-day industrial decline as exemplified by Detroit to a renaissance of the transformed landscape. Transformation, understood as designing with the 'as found', forms the basis of this design theory; it explores design work informed by a sensibility for redeemed beauty and various concepts of relating past, present and future.--Back cover 

Ämnesord

Landscape architecture  (LCSH)

Industrial buildings  -- Remodeling for other use (LCSH)

Industrial sites  -- Landscape architecture (LCSH)

Urban renewal  (LCSH)

Sustainable architecture  (LCSH)

City planning  (LCSH)

Industriebrache  (gnd)

Technisches Denkmal  (gnd)

Folgenutzung  (gnd)

Landschaftsgestaltung  (gnd)

Umweltgestaltung  (gnd)

Landschaftspark  (gnd)

Europa  (gnd)

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