Sustainable reclamation of industrial areas in urban landscapes

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 102, Issue , 2007, Pages 791-800

  Loures, L ^a   Panagopoulos, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Derelict land; Design strategies; Landscape Architecture; Landscape reclamation; Urban regeneration

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECLAIMED LAND; RECYCLING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN AREA;

CANADA; CENTRAL EUROPE; DOWNSVIEW; DUISBURG; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; STATEN ISLAND [NEW YORK]; TORONTO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36148986092     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/SDP070752     Document Type: Article

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