December 4, 2014
Lucas Del Biondo, « Sustainable urban redevelopment strategies of post-industrial territories. Case study of Franco-Luxembourg territory of the Alzette upper volley and contributions of European examples », Theses.fr, ID : 10670/1.29d7ak
Ln many industrial basins across Europe, the industrial towns and factory-towns have been build up around a production systemthat managed, developed and animated the territory almost itself. Due to this functioning exclusively dedicated to industry, thedecline of a great majority of these urban industrial territories was particularly brutal during the crisis of the 1970s, causingsevere consequences on the economic, demographic, social, urban, environmental and landscape levels.This PhD Thesis provides food for thought in regard to the strategic issues of a sustainable urban renewal, as a sum of consistentand correlated actions, intended for revitalize and restructure a deteriorated and/or obsolete urban territory. ln the case thatwe focuse on former post-industrial urban territories, a sustainable urban redevelopment involves a revitalization of the economicfa bric and requires a coherent reorganization of the territorial functioning; it is notably based on identity and urban potentialof many industrial heritages and may appeal to leverages in order to set in motion or catalyze the transition from an obsoleteindustrial approach to a sustainable urban logic.The analysis of the cross-border urban territory of the upper Alzette valley, in the French-Luxembourgish iron field, is particularlyinteresting. lts urban redevelopment is mainly determined by the Luxembourgish metropolitan dynamic, which highlightsthe necessity to operate changes of scale. Moreover, the ambitious mixed urban redevelopment of the Luxembourgish industrialwasteland Belval-West, and also the choice of French public stakeholders to commit to a sustainable approach, are very instructivegrounds for observation.