Brownfield sites: urban crisis and their possible synergies with the context

Abstract

With the continuing depression in the economic cycle of long-term and high costs of materials and labor, plus the difficulty of remediation of contaminated sites, brownfield sites seem more and more difficult to redevelop. The proliferation of investment opportunities on the nodes of the peri-urban transport, in new central places, in the face of low demand, makes it even more difficult the recovery of many central areas and inner suburban that remain abandoned. In addition, waves of globalization less rich, with the migration of entrepreneurs of dubious ability and consequent architectural effects of poor quality.
In this context the evaluation of the vocations of each abandoned area is basic condition for both the policies of a new inductive urban planning that, rather than relying on the standard parameters to be assigned per capita, is based on performance standards, and to direct the promoters and market investors, to suitable locations, in order to obtain new synergies between the same areas rehabilitated in different parts of the city, between these areas and their surroundings, and between these areas and the existing centrality.
The methods of evaluation of these vocations of areas in relation to their condition, their location and context, are the focal point of this article.