brownfield regeneration

REGISTER NOW! Workshop II- Brownfield regeneration site planning improved with 3D visualization and interactive public participation tools

Submitted by maija.rusanen on 23 May, 2017 - 09:33

Baltic Urban Lab invites urban planners and other interested experts in Norrköping, Sweden on June 15th, 2017 to learn how to benefit from the possibilities new interactive participation tools and especially the use of 3D visualization bring in urban planning.

Peer Review method for face-to-face planning of brownfields

Brownfield regeneration deals with similar planning challenges in different cities and countries. The method of "One-day peer-workshop with a site visit" was developed in the Baltic Urban Lab project to offer an intensive and informal face-to-face forum for information and experience exchange for peers and to allow them to learn from similar planning cases that they are dealing with themselves.

Share your excellent brownfield stories!

Submitted by kristiina.paju on 8 November, 2017 - 13:00

We are interested to learn about sustainable brownfield regeneration projects and case studies - if Your city has an excellent example of an old industrial building/area turned into lively neighbourhood with great recreational opportunities, we would like to hear from you!  Especially, when in the planning phase, you have utilized citizen participation and more inclusive urban planning processes for regenerating the area!

Norrköping's Joint Pilot Review Day produced suggestions with great potential

Submitted by kristiina.paju on 7 July, 2017 - 14:19

On 14 June 2017,  urban planners working on the Baltic Urban Lab project came together to review the activities in Norrköping's Pilot Site - Inner Harbour (Inre Hamnen in Swedish).

Planning Systems and Legislation for Brownfield Development in the Central Baltic Countries

Brownfield redevelopment is an important topic in Europe, where many countries and cities are experiencing rapid urbanisation. The aim of this brochure is to enable experiences of brownfield redevelopment to be exchanged between the Central Baltic countries (Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Sweden) by providing knowledge about the conditions for brownfield redevelopment in each country. The brochure presents the planning systems and principal legislation and policies related to brownfield redevelopment. It specifically highlights the aforementioned key challenges of cooperation between actors and the remediation of contaminated land, and looks at how domestic legislation and policies promote or hinder meeting those challenges.

Towards strategic spatial planning in Central Baltic Cities – First Baltic Urban Lab Workshop a success

Submitted by maija.rusanen on 15 March, 2017 - 13:21

The first Baltic Urban Lab workshop was held on 2 March 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia. Over 50 participants from cities around the Central Balticregion gathered to the former industrial building Kultuurikatel to discuss and share experiences about how to design better integrated planning processes involving variety of stakeholders especially in the context of brownfield redevelopment.