From Planning to Smart Management of Historic Industrial Brownfield Regeneration

Abstract

Development of urban systems is permanent process of its adaptation for the realization of dynamically changing human activities and of responses to external disturbances resulting in the changes in urban functional and spatial structure. These changes can be seen as the permanent innovations in urban socio-ecosystems reacting dominantly on innovations in the production sectors, as initiating phenomenon. In many cases the internal power driving permanent innovation process in urban structures absents and external intervention is needed to re-start the natural processes of permanent adaptive transformation and safeguarding their sustainability [1]. Especially historic industrial brownfield are facing the problems of degradation, underuse, free-riders or conflicts between actors [2]. Their management process, including planning, reflects social dilemmas being confronted with the real or seemingly contradictions between individual and collective interests on fictional and other parameters of urban structure. The main objective of the paper is to demonstrate the potential of new conceptual framework to improve the processes of brownfield regeneration and to develop efficient and sustainable management strategies under existing complexity, multiple actors and levels in the decision making.