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The thesis „The status and perspectives of post-industrial sites“ with the sub-title „Recycling of degraded landscapes“ deals with the research of post-industrial objects, areas, sites and landscape and possibilities for their further utilization. This thesis focuses on brownfield classification and subsequent definition of criteria that are significant for choice of acceptable conversion of post-industrial areas with emphasis on use of landscape architecture as the main field of study applied in the work of selected conversions. For the purpose of categorization and searching for forms of transformations, the author chooses and draws up a catalogue of 61 executed conversions located in the old industrial areas in Germany, afterwards defines a set of general recommendations for post-industrial areas development, or post-industrial landscape development; the main benefits, which these specific landscapes bring or may bring to us (both at the level of cultural and historical values, recreational potential, psychogeographic importance and the economic possibilities), also defining risks of post-industrial areas (specification of their urgency and finding ways to elimination) and subsequently verifies these conclusions on a basis of own project conversions of post-industrial areas, which enables final explicit extraction of knowledge into the resulting recommendations. Special attention is paid to post-industrial vegetation, in the thesis there are defined four possible approaches to its integration into urban ecosystem (retaining, adjustment, complementation and negation). Further high attention is paid to classification and possibilities of railway brownfield conversions, classification and possibilities of dumps (spoil banks) conversions and classification and possibilities of large industrial areas conversions. The final set of strategies for post-industrial landscapes conversion comprises 6 articles: (1) Ensuring and conservation of valuable industrial buildings and other post-industrial landscape elements; (2) Interconnection of areas with natural surroundings and urban ecosystem and support of permeability in post-industrial landscapes; (3) Renaturation, solving of contamination and pollution problems; (4) Area improvement, attractors and post-industrial significant signs selection and their protection and development; (5) Creation of a full-area concept for a development of an area or a region; (6) Medialization support and awareness of post-industrial landscape revitalization possibilities. The aim of this thesis is to help to save industrial heritage of certain areas and to outline the ways of searching for new meaningful utilization of post-industrial areas. |
