Trial back to the landscape: Reactivating the city of Heerlen with a landscape approach

Green metropolis is a pioneering European project for extensive tri-national collaboration between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Its starting point is to develop a sustainable future for the post-industry area. As one of the major tasks in the project, to explore possibilities for new energy has been taken into consideration, which makes the area as a test field for the graduation lab of energy landscape. South Limburg is the Dutch part in region of Green metropolis which gathers all of the mining sites in Netherlands. As the central part of ‘ParkStad’ in South Limburg, Heerlen is a city developed on the basis of mining industry which has witnessed the prosperity and decline of the Dutch mining industry. The city is going through a depression since the mining industry was over. The project aims at reactivating the post-industrial city with an approach of landscape, which deals with both of recalling the old energy landscape as identity of the city and creating new energy landscape. To achieve this goal, the infrastructure lines will be used as a design instrument not only to invite people to perceive the new landscape, but also to work as the new structure for urban development. Thus, new life will be injected to the city with a new green heart transformed from an integration of the post-industrial sites, existing landscape and shrinking area.

Subject

landscape and renewable energy
landscape of infrastructure
urban network
shrinking city

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2013-12-06

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master thesis

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