Reuse and Regeneration of Urban Spaces
From a Resilient Perspective
Sara Cattaneo, Camilla Lenzi and Alessandra Zanelli
Introduction
Reuse and regeneration are two different approaches in terms of scale of intervention—the first at the punctual scale of the single building or urban block, and the
second at the larger and more complex urban scale—but both aimed at raising the
capacity for adaptation and resistance of contemporary cities. This ability to adapt
even to dramatic changes that can occur over the years—also defined in terms of
resilience—is nowadays one of the key factors of the urban development policies
and essentially involves three challenges: resource saving, increasing of the special
quality of both confined spaces and open-air zones and, not least, social inclusion.
The resilient perspective, with which this section interprets both reuse and
regeneration interventions, takes into consideration the intensive and intentional
processes, on the one hand, and the extensive and spontaneous ones, on the other
hand.
This section intends to address the following topics in particular:
(a) the reuse and redevelopment of buildings with the objective of developing
and defining efficient systems that are structurally adequate, resilient, adaptable and
flexible over time, easily re-convertible;
(b) the redevelopment of disused areas and suburbs, planning construction and
demolition works, managing the disposal and/or reuse of demolition waste,
favouring building replacement, limiting land consumption and activating virtuous
and innovative processes of circularity between raw and second materials;
(c) the redevelopment of urban fabrics in the historic districts of cities, of villages and traditional rural landscapes, of peri-urban contexts to enhance their history, memories and identities and to promote their conservation with respect to the
main risk factors (e.g. earthquakes) in a resilient key.
From a Resilient Perspective
Sara Cattaneo, Camilla Lenzi and Alessandra Zanelli
Introduction
Reuse and regeneration are two different approaches in terms of scale of intervention—the first at the punctual scale of the single building or urban block, and the
second at the larger and more complex urban scale—but both aimed at raising the
capacity for adaptation and resistance of contemporary cities. This ability to adapt
even to dramatic changes that can occur over the years—also defined in terms of
resilience—is nowadays one of the key factors of the urban development policies
and essentially involves three challenges: resource saving, increasing of the special
quality of both confined spaces and open-air zones and, not least, social inclusion.
The resilient perspective, with which this section interprets both reuse and
regeneration interventions, takes into consideration the intensive and intentional
processes, on the one hand, and the extensive and spontaneous ones, on the other
hand.
This section intends to address the following topics in particular:
(a) the reuse and redevelopment of buildings with the objective of developing
and defining efficient systems that are structurally adequate, resilient, adaptable and
flexible over time, easily re-convertible;
(b) the redevelopment of disused areas and suburbs, planning construction and
demolition works, managing the disposal and/or reuse of demolition waste,
favouring building replacement, limiting land consumption and activating virtuous
and innovative processes of circularity between raw and second materials;
(c) the redevelopment of urban fabrics in the historic districts of cities, of villages and traditional rural landscapes, of peri-urban contexts to enhance their history, memories and identities and to promote their conservation with respect to the
main risk factors (e.g. earthquakes) in a resilient key.