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Culture-led Urban Regeneration as a Catalyst for the Revitalisation of the Romanian Industrial Heritage

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: Former industrial spaces represent an important territorial asset to direct development and growth processes.Romania possesses a large industrial heritage after the de-industrialisation started in the 1990s.The aim of the study is to highlight the role of cultural regeneration in revitalising the abandoned industrial areas.In Romania's particular case, the conversion of industrial sites is a recent process.Different brownfield industrial sites were chosen as case studies to develop different models of cultural re-use for their re-integration as urban public spaces.The selected 1 This study was supported by the UB 1322 project "integrated and sectorial analyses in trans-scalar territorial dynamics".

Source: ISR-Forschungsberichte

DOI: 10.1553/isr_fb042s403

Authors: Cristina Merciu, George Merciu, Mirela Paraschiv, Loreta Cercleux, Ionuţ Ianoş

Institution: University of Bucharest

Language: English

Topic: Urban Development and Cultural Heritage

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2592770828