Industrial Nature is the regeneration of natural vegetation on industrial sites; the invasion of abandoned or disused industrial sites by colonising species; or new plantings on abandoned, disused or remediated industrial sites. The underlying principal is that the historical industrial use of landscapes or sites creates a new environment which species can use either by design as in the case of a park or revegetated area, or by colonisation.
The concept has its origins in Germany, specifically at the
Emscher Landscape Park in the Ruhr, (of which the
Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
Landschaftspark is a public park located in Duisburg- Meiderich, Germany.
It was designed in 1991 by Latz + Partner ( Peter Latz), with the intention that it work to heal and understand the industrial past, rather than trying to reject it. The p ...
is the best known example) and has been applied at the Sudgelande Park in Berlin.
Another example can be found at the Deutsches Technikmuseum
German Museum of Technology (Berlin)
(German Museum of Technology) in Berlin, Germany is a museum of science and technology, and exhibits a large collection of historical technical artifacts. The museum's main emphasis originally was on rail transport, but today it also features e ...
, at the former locomotive workshops and goods yard (Anhalter Güterbahnhof) of Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company. Here much of the goods yards and part of the roundhouse complex has been left as a ruin, colonised by a variety of non-native plants.
See also
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Brownfields
In urban planning, brownfield land is any previously developed land that is not currently in use. It may be potentially contaminated, but this is not required for the area to be considered brownfield. The term is also used to describe land pre ...
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Cultural landscape
References
* Bothmann, Frank, and Sabine Auer. 2009. The New Emscher Valley – Reshaping an urban Landscape creates regional Identity. In REAL CORP 2009: ''Cities 3.0 – smart, sustainable, integrative. Strategies, concepts and technologies for planning the urban future'', edited by M. SCHRENK, V. V. POPOVICH, D. ENGELKE and P. ELISEI.
* Drexler, Justina 2005. Post-Industrial Nature in the Coal Mine of Göttelborn, Germany: The Integration of Ruderal Vegetation in the Conversion of a Brownfield, in ''Wild Urban Woodlands New Perspectives for Urban Forestry'', edited by I. Kowarik and S. Körner. Berlin: Springer
External links
International Brownfields Case Study: Emscher Park, Germany
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Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...
Cultural heritage
Cultural landscapes