Strategies Resolving Spatial Fragmentation: Case Study in the Brownfield Zone of Budapest

The transitory belt of Budapest contains a great number of underused, brownfield areas awaiting rehabilitation as a result of the economic transformations of the last few decades. The paper deals with a characteristic problem of this belt, the visual and spatial fragmentation, and examines it at one...

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Published inPeriodica polytechnica. Architecture Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 67 - 74
Main Authors Romaniak, Alicja, Skaliczki, Judit, Szabó, Árpád
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Budapest Periodica Polytechnica, Budapest University of Technology and Economics 16.02.2015
Subjects
Belts
Densification
Fragmentation
Landscapes
Rehabilitation
Strategy
Transformations
Visual
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Summary:The transitory belt of Budapest contains a great number of underused, brownfield areas awaiting rehabilitation as a result of the economic transformations of the last few decades. The paper deals with a characteristic problem of this belt, the visual and spatial fragmentation, and examines it at one specific location: the neighbourhood of the Gas Works area in Óbuda. Through this example, it proposes specific urban design and landscape oriented spatial strategies that could be applied to this fragmented site. These strategies use densification tools, deal with the reprogramming of the open landscape, and propose urban landscape design interventions with the goal of hydrological management. The objective of the paper is to identify approaches dealing with the fragmentation of the neighbourhood and propose tools for articulating a more connected, visually more integrated environment.
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ISSN:0324-590X
1789-3437
DOI:10.3311/PPar.7973