Landscape Regeneration of Urban Industrial Heritage Sites Towards the Human Factors Perspective: Perception and Assessment

Abstract

Urban industrial heritage sites activated through conservation and reuse have been considered to play a vital role in urban landscape, and they can be effectively transformed into public spaces extensively exploited by urban residents. The regeneration of urban industrial heritage has been increasingly discussed from the perspective of landscape worldwide, thus laying a solid basis for this paper. In general, by reviewing the evolving understanding of industrial heritage, this paper analyzes post-industrial landscape and urban industrial heritage as historic urban landscape. On this basis, three crucial aspects are proposed in order to conclude the essence of urban industrial heritage and existing problem of research on the landscape regeneration of post-industrial sites. Most importantly, the study relating to human-environment interaction on renewed sites based on the quantitative method has aroused less attention of professionals. Accordingly, the new interdisciplinary exploration of landscape architecture and human factors has been triggered, thus shifting the views from professionals’ subjective planning and design to individuals’ objective perception and assessment with the use of bio-sensory techniques. Lastly, through the quantitative and qualitative analysis, the whole process and tendency of landscape regeneration of urban industrial heritage sites with recommendations for the future relevant research are creatively indicated to provide valuable reference for the further exploration of post-industrial landscape.