This edited collection explores how architects, planners and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities.
Chapters investigate how to move from an extractivist system towards a territorialist project, working for the reappropriation of territorial resources after centuries of the subordination of local and immigrant populations. The first part reviews cases from European sites, including examples from France, Germany, and Romania which highlight intangible heritage as the subject of a territorial project. A special focus is placed on the coalfields of northern France, a Unesco World Heritage site since 2012, where many experimental projects are being carried out. The second part explores the great American landscapes transformed by the extractive industry, in the United States, Brazil, and Chile. Fully illustrated throughout, photos showcase architectural and landscape achievements and drawings of future projects. Contributors respond to the design challenges of post-mining landscapes, foreshadowing new and varied transformative horizons, the cases present a rich and articulate collection of ‘on-the-ground’ projects.
This book is essential to practitioners and students of architecture and urban planning, as well as associations and political and technical actors in the post-mining communities.
General Introduction Part 1. The Nord and Pas-de-Calais mining basin, emblem of a post-mining territory in projects Introduction: The Nord and Pas-de-Calais mining basin, emblem of a post-mining territory in projects 1. Loos-en-Gohelle, a resilient town 2. The mining vine, a source of projects for the Nord Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin, UNESCO World Heritage Site 3. De l ‘extractivisme à l’acclimatation: Post-extractivist mining renovations in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais mining basin 4. Light-touch retrofitting, earth and textile 5. An architectural permanence to fight against energy poverty 6. The electrician’s town Part 1 Conclusion Part 2. Architectural and social heritage in Europe Part 2 Introduction 7. Spatial Strategy Process 2038+ in Rhenish Mining District and the Consideration of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 8. Repairing and caretaking or managing and curating: how to build a milieu in the post mining region of Saint-Étienne (France)? 9. Working-class neighbourhoods as a resource: reconnecting form, use, and meaning for an inclusive transition. Immersion in a post-mining territory 10. Post-mining in a post-Socialist context. Planeta Petrila A long-term bottom-up strategy for a post-mining city and area. 11. Geographical and cultural limitations in the post-mining development strategy, Case study from the Jiu Valley coal basin, Romania 12. Charleroi: Landscape ‘as found’ - Mapping as a tool for Visioning Part 2 Conclusion Part 3. Transformations of the great American landscapes Part 3 Introduction 13. Ecological restoration infrastructure at the Copiapó’s river in a post-mining degraded landscape in Tierra Amarilla (Chile) 14. Brazilian Post-Mining context: The case of Minas Gerais region 15. The somewhere project Part 3 Conclusion Part 4. Prologue: Mining stories Part 4 Introduction 16. Materials and territory 17. Redescribing mining territories: literature, fragments, elements
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