Post-Industrial Areas Management, Evaluation of the Area’s Suitability for Redevelopment – Case Study

The transformation of the Polish economy during the period of its transformation from a planned socialist economy into a market economy resulted, among others, in the emergence of a large number of post-industrial areas which are no longer used. Located often in developed urban areas, with many disadvantages such as contamination or unstable ownership status, they are not of interest to investors. Exploiting the potential they undoubtedly have would in many cases require the investment of considerable resources, but in order for these to be allocated to the investment, the investor expects to gain complete knowledge of the character and specificity of the place. The article is an example of a preliminary analysis of a selected post-industrial area, which helps to outline the direction of future area redevelopment.

Integrated organizational management system of a construction company engaged in industrial area redevelopment

A large number of large industrial cities around the world are characterized by the presence of industrial sites in the Central part of the city and areas close to the center. A significant part of these zones have lost their relevance and are not used as production facilities, but function as rental businesses. The relevance of the study considered in this article is due to the need to create an organizational and technological model for the development of project documentation for the redevelopment of industrial facilities in the absence of Federal and regional programs in Russia that affect this area, as well as the lack of a regulatory framework for regulating the activities of project organizations that develop the above projects. The article deals with the General principles of developing an organizational and technological model that allows evaluating and optimizing the designer’s activity when repurposing industrial objects, as well as aimed at improving the design processes of such objects. For scientific, methodological and system-technical bases of designing organizational structures of enterprises and organization of production processes of modeling re-profiling of industrial territories, it was necessary to solve the following tasks: study and generalization of foreign and domestic experiences of redevelopment of industrial zones; identification of actual problems in the design of redevelopment of industrial territories; study of factors that affect the effectiveness of the designer; establishing the degree of influence of the identified factors on the quality of the project documentation produced. The parameters and organizational principles described in the article are taken into account when re-profiling industrial objects in the urban environment of large Russian megalopolises.

Blue, White, and Red Heat

This chapter looks at central government’s role in directing the way in which local authorities enacted central-area redevelopment schemes. It shows how modernist ideas were sustained by a broadly consensual cross-party political culture in central government. It shows how the Joint Urban Planning Group, set up within the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, provided guidance to local authorities in how to form public–private partnerships to redevelop their city centres. The last section discusses the fate of these ideas during Labour’s first term after the 1964 election, and argues for an economic explanation of the initial reaction against modernist approaches to the built environment.

The Trajectory of Central-Area Redevelopment

The final chapter looks at the way that the very planning and political elites who had been at the heart of the changes came to disavow the ideas that they had espoused only a few years before. The chapter argues that architecture ceased to be the dominant profession in the planning profession. It traces the widespread disillusionment with modernist planning, showing the disavowal of modernist approaches from the perspective of planning and political elites, including a section on the Labour politician Richard Crossman. A new set of priorities for cities was indicated by the emergence of the term ‘inner city’, which saw urban decision makers tackling problems centred around the persistence of poverty rather than affluence.

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AND TOWN-CENTRE REDEVELOPMENT IN BRITAIN, 1959–1966

ABSTRACTThis article looks at central government's role, focusing on the parliamentary terms 1959–64 and 1964–6, in directing the way in which local authorities enacted the central area redevelopment schemes of the 1960s. The first two sections review the substantial but little-studied literature produced across the political spectrum about central area urban renewal in the period 1959–64. Section III uses the Joint Urban Planning Group, a group set up within the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, as a case-study to show how modernist approaches to redevelopment became operative within a government department. The Joint Urban Planning Group has received no attention from historians. Section IV discusses the fate of these ideas during Labour's first term after the 1964 election.