What is it about?
In Romania, the derelict areas generate observable as well as hidden transformations within cities. Among the observable outcomes of the process, there is the reshaping of inner-urban patterns and landscapes, of the urban functions, urban disruptions, spatial incoherence and the necessity of urban (re)development. Hidden mechanisms behind brownfield sites are the competition for territory, bribery and preferential loans, hidden ecological hazards on local communities, non-participative urban planning and urban policies.
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The article is a must-read for the authors that deal with post-socialist transformations.
Perspectives
Ruins of socialist industry represent 'hot' areas in the Romanian post-socialist cities. They are expressions of the forced industrialization of the past, proofs of corruption after the fall of communism, places of interest for urban developers, places that need decontamination in order to transformed. Solventul represents an example of how and why a high risk petrochemical plant was placed close to the central part of Timisoara. At the same time its dereliction speaks of other types of risks and discourses that are presented in detail in the paper.
Dr. Sorina Voiculescu
University of the West
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This page is a summary of: Producing urban industrial derelict places: The case of the Solventul petrochemical plant in Timişoara, European Urban and Regional Studies, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0969776414541134.
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