Study on Organic Regeneration of the Abandoned Infrastructure in Cities

Abstract:

Abandoned infrastructure presents a series of problems such as safety problems, destruction of urban landscape, and occupation of urban land resources, thus they need to be demolished or reconstructed. The key to organic regeneration of abandoned infrastructure in cities is sustaining the ecological environment, spatial environment and cultural environment they lie in, and combining with the sustainable development of the city after the reconstruction. Based on some typical international cases, this paper proposes three strategies in the regeneration of the abandoned infrastructure, including complete demolishment, necessary reconstruction and diverse development. Combined with “The Big Dig” project in Boston,the study has shown that it updates open space of cities,boots economic development and carries on organic regeneration of the abandoned infrastructure through the landacape intervention.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 610-613)
• Pages: 2425-2428
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.610-613.2425
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Xiao Ying Li, Hao Wang
• Keywords: Abandoned Infrastructure, Big Dig, Boston, Organic Regeneration

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