Rundown segregated areas - Experimenting
Do you test your vision/solutions before developing it further?-
STREET ART MURALS FOR URBAN RENEWAL, HEERLEN, NETHERLANDS
Building community engagement, fostering urban regeneration through mural street artHeerlen (NL) is marked by a number of degenerated areas due to the collapse of the mining industry in the Limburg region. To foster social and urban regeneration in these areas the municipality uses community art as a tool to engage (...)
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STEP BY STEP LAB, CASORIA, ITALIA
Step by step from small scale actions in the public domain to renewal of entire areasToday, the formerly booming industrial town Casoria, next to Naples, is in crisis. Several industries have relocated their factories, many shopping centres are struggling, there is a lot of vacant office space and services have been (...)
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SOCIAL GARDENING, CASORIA, ITALIA
The opening of the park, a former fenced of vacant military site, that was simply opened up allowing to use the existing ecosystem as a parkThere is an old military domain in Casoria for which the municipality’s structure plan envisions a future park.
Instead of starting to design this park behind a desk with landscape experts, Casoria invited (...)