Wydanie 343(47)3 2018

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    Inner-City Brownfields – Genesis, Specifics of Contamination, Possibility of Renewal
    (Wydawnictwo Zachodniopomorskiego Uniwersytetu Technologicznego w Szczecinie, 2018) Kiepas-Kokot, Anna; Dusza-Zwolińska, Elżbieta; Department of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Management, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland; Department of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Management, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland
    A city’s post-industrial areas are a reservoir of attractive urban space which can both be reused for industrial purposes or managed in a different way. The economic transformation of the post-industrial era caused a high availability of brownfields in modern cities, mostly as a result of high costs of maintaining production in central locations. The available spatial resources were not suited for the needs of modern, concentrated, automated and fragmented production processes. The early industrial model of development enforced spatial development of cities that was tailored to the needs of industry. Revitalization of these areas is an opportunity for their efficient use. The main barrier in this process is, inter alia, soil contamination, which is poorly researched, highly varied, and expensive in liquidation. Soil and land contamination of brownfields is a permanent footprint of many years of high industrial pressure and it is substantially less considered than the environmental state of the surroundings of said brownfields. The pollution of soil within the areas of former industrial plants is often accompanied by the left-behind decaying infrastructure. Waste collected in industrial facilities can also be problematic. The characteristics of industrial sites in city centers strongly limit the possibilities of transformation. New legal regulations, which introduce historical soil contamination statuses and remediation plans, are an important stimulus for the intensification of processes of transformation of the industrial areas of city centers through the improvement of their ecological status and can, thus, be an effective path to sustainable urban development.