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Brownfield´s regeneration

Summary

Students are comprehensively acquainted with the problems of abandoned and underused areas - brownfields. Within the subject, they will learn about the facts that lead to brownfields, about the problems they cause in the settlements and the possibilities of revitalization of the areas including the sources of financing. The course also includes information on how to create contamination and how to remove it. Everything is supplemented by the discussion of the technical monuments, which are connected with the regional specifics of the Ostrava-Karvina agglomeration, especially the mining activity and its negative influence on the landscape.

Literature

EDWARDS, D. (ed.): Best Practice Guidance for Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration. Nottingham: Land Quality Press, 2005. ISBN 0-9547474-0-2.

HOLLANDER, J. B., KIRKWOOD, N., GOLD, J. L.,: Principles of brownfield regeneration: cleanup, design, and reuse of derelict land. Washington: Island Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-59726-722-9 .

DAVIS, T. S., SHERMAN, S. A.: Brownfields: a comprehensive guide to redeveloping contaminated property. 3rd ed. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2010. ISBN 978-1-61632-000-3 .

DIXON, T. J.: Sustainable brownfield regeneration: liveable places from problem spaces. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.

GELTMAN, E. G.: Recycling land: understanding the legal landscape of brownfield development. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000.

Advised literature

HULA, R. C., REESE, L., JACKSON-ELMOORE, C.: Reclaiming brownfields: a comparative analysis of adaptive reuse of contaminated properties. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012.


Language of instruction čeština, angličtina
Code 222-0508
Abbreviation REG
Course title Brownfield´s regeneration
Coordinating department Department of Urban Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Barbara Vojvodíková, Ph.D.