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Vacant land in city: potential functional, ecological and aesthetic role in the urban landscape
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The growth of contemporary cities has been
accompanied by the appearance of forgotten and
abandoned spaces, as well as derelict structures
that are part of a broad category of neglected and
unoccupied spaces within cities. This situation
which arises for economic reasons, property
speculation, and the consequent expansion of
the suburbs has become an important topic
subject, as can be seen from the international
bibliographical review about the “reuse” of vacant
land and derelict structures in cities.
Traditionally urban planning dealt with growth
which was the centre of attention. Modern urban
planning arose in the 19th century associated
with the need to find suitable housing for a
growing urban population, and it retained this
function over almost the entire 20th century.
Although during that period there were some
amounts of ruins that urban planners had to
cope with, such destruction was occasional
and scattered, linked to cataclysms or other
exceptional circumstances.
In the final quarter of the 20th century urban
planners were faced with situations that had
been unknown in the lives of cities. Suddenly
they found that not only the central areas of
agglomerations but also entire urban regions
were losing residents and businesses instead of
growing.
These “perforated/random” abandoned or
vacant spaces are a potential challenge when it
comes to assigning them new “functions”. Most
of these spaces house ecological formations.
Some are the remnants of gardens or derelict
green structures that survive over time and
very often also perform a social role, but usually
underperforming.
This study seeks to raise awareness of the
aesthetic, functional and ecological qualities
that these abandoned spaces can bring to a city
and discuss ways of integrating them into the
urban landscape that go beyond the conventional
urban restoration models but rather represent
alternative intervention solutions that may
be applied permanently or temporarily. The
refurbishing or reorganising of these spaces will strength the urban ecological structure in
addition to green spaces and so contribute to the
promotion and preservation of biodiversity, urban
resilience and risk mitigation.
The study presented here is part of NoVOID
Project – “Ruins and vacant lands in the
Portuguese cities: exploring hidden life in urban
derelicts and alternative planning proposals
for the perforated city”, funded by the FCT and
which is based on the identifying and classifying
of the main vacant and derelict urban spaces
(ruined buildings and public places vacant plots
and abandoned or suspended projects) and
assigning them an occupation in line with the
new trends and sensitivities of architecture,
landscape architecture and other specialist
fields. The project, based on genuine situations
in Portuguese cities Lisbon and Barreiro, seeks
to contribute to sustainable urban and landscape
proposals, of a permanent or temporary nature,
that enhance their potential functional, ecological
and aesthetic role and, in some cases, be an
alternative to the conventional models of urban
landscape restoration.
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Naturalism Urban restoration Lisbon Barreiro
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Soares, Ana Luísa, Azambuja, Sónia Talhé, Brito-Henriques, Eduardo & Simões, Ana Rita (2017). Vacant land in the city: potential functional, ecological and aesthetic roles in the urban landscape. In: D. Goodwin, B. Kotzen, E. Wall, & T. Waterman (Eds.). ECLAS Conference 2017/Proceedings. Creation/Reaction. (pp. 1159-1169). University of Greenwich. ISBN 978-0-9935909-6-2.