This open access book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, cities and neighbourhoods. It provides both a theoretical and practical approach to the topic, offering a thorough introduction to urban brownfields and regeneration projects as well as an operational monitoring tool.

Neighbourhoods in Transition begins with an overview of historic urban development and strategic areas in the hearts of towns to be developed. It then defines several key issues related to the topic, including urban brownfields, regeneration projects, and sustainability issues related to neighbourhood development. The second part of this book is focused on support tools, explaining the challenges faced, the steps involved in a regeneration process, and offering an operational monitoring tool. It applies the unique tool to case studies in three selected neighbourhoods and the outcomesof one case study are also presented and discussed, highlighting its benefits.

The audience for this book will be both professional and academic. It will support researchers as an up-to-date reference book on urban brownfield regeneration projects, and also the work of architects, urban designers, urban planners and engineers involved in sustainability transitions of the built environment.

Briefs that state-of-the-art literature on regeneration projects can contribute to the urban sustainability transitions Provides an in-depth analysis of urban brownfield regeneration projects processes and challenges Offers an innovative operational monitoring tool for decision making on urban brownfield regeneration projects This book is open access which means you have free and unlimited access

Auteur
Professor Emmanuel Rey is head of the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and a partner at Bauart Architects and Planners in Bern, Neuchâtel and Zurich. He is the author of a doctoral thesis at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) on urban brownfield regeneration and the integration of sustainability evaluation into the project dynamics, awarded by the European Gustave Magnel Prize in 2009. His practice, research and teaching focus on the field of sustainable architecture, with particular emphasis on the transcription of the principles of sustainability at different levels of intervention. He is the editor and author of several books on architectural and urban design and author of numerous articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings. In 2015, he is awarded by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and received the swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research (td-award).

Dr. Martine Laprise graduated from the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2017, after several years of experience in professional practice as an architect in Canada and Switzerland. She is the author of a doctoral thesis on operational monitoring for the integration of sustainability issues into urban brownfield regeneration projects. She is currently working as a scientist at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST), carrying out research and teaching activities. She is the author of several articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Sophie Lufkin graduated as an architect from the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2005. She is the author of a doctoral thesis on the densification potential of disused railway areas in Switzerland. After an international practical experience at LAR-Fernando Romero (Mexico City), she is currently working as a scientist and lecturer at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST), carrying out research and teaching activities. She is the author of several articles in scientific journals, conference proceedings and books.

Contenu
Part 1: Definition and issues.- Introduction.- Urban brownfields: Origin, definition, and diversity.- The multiple potentials of urban brownfields.- Urban brownfield regeneration projects: Complexities and issues.- Sustainability issues at the neighbourhood scale.- Part 2: Project dynamics and support tools.- Key steps of a regeneration process.- Specific skills and adapted support.- Sustainability monitoring: Principles, challenges, and approaches.- An operational monitoring tool.- Application to a case study.- Conclusion.- Appendix.