VERBI VEnice Research BIbliography

Both nationally and internationally, the redevelopment of brownfields is of late a matter of much intense discussion from a socio-economic and territorial planning point of view. The many changes in economy, production and welfare, industrial reorganization and production relocation during the last century gave rise to the abandonment of many inner- and outer-city areas.
Both local and global reasonings are responsible for the cycles of abandonment, which lead to problems from both points of view: at a local level these cycles necessitate a redefinition of regulations that may, via damage reduction and risk taking, help towards territorial renewal and the definition of new social practices according to sustainable strategies. In global terms, the town is thus reproposed as a “system whereby indirect interaction may be multiplied and organized at a distance”, as emphasized by A. Giddens. The complexity of the problem lies in this relationship and in the capacity to retain distinctive features within the redevelopment plan.
It is within this perspective that research was aimed at providing a support system for brownfield redevelopment: as a template for work sites, but above all as a tool for generating knowledge and continual evaluation whereby expertise, stakeholder strategies and algorithms would be alternated.