Architecture, Landscape, and Design in Post-Mining Territories

by Post-Mining Network (Editor)

Overview

This edited collection explores how architects, planners, and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities.

Chapters investigate how to move from an extractivist system towards a territorialist project, working towards the reappropriation of territorial resources after centuries of subordination of local and immigrant populations. The first part reviews cases from European sites, including examples from France, Germany, and Romania that highlight intangible heritage as the subject of a territorial project. A special focus is placed on the coalfields of northern France, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2012, where many experimental projects are being carried out. The second part explores the great American landscapes transformed by the extractive industry in the United States, Brazil, and Chile. Fully illustrated throughout, this book features photos showcasing architectural and landscape achievements, as well as drawings of future projects. Contributors respond to the design challenges of post-mining landscapes, foreshadowing new and varied transformative horizons. The cases present a rich and articulate collection of ‘on-the-ground’ projects.

This book is essential for practitioners and students of architecture and urban planning, as well as associations and political and technical actors in post-mining communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032759432
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/30/2025
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

The Post-Mining Network is an organisation that brings together people and institutions from the world of architecture and urban planning from over 25 countries. It was founded by the ‘Acclimatize post-mining territories’ chair created by Bétrice Mariolle, professor at the Ecole nationale supéieure d’architecture et de paysage de Lille and researcher at IPRAUS.

Table of Contents

General introduction: what can post-mining territories tell us about our contemporary society?  Part 1. The Nord and Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin, emblem of a post-mining territory in projects  Part 1 Introduction: the Nord and Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin, projects in an emblematic post-mining territory  1. Loos-en-Gohelle, a resilient town  2. The mining vine, a source of projects for the Nord Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin, UNESCO World Heritage Site  3. From extractivism to acclimatisation: post-extractivist mining renovations in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin  4. Light-touch retrofitting, earth, and textile  5. An architectural permanence to fight against energy poverty  6. The electrician’s town  Part 1 Conclusion  Part 2. Architectural and social heritage in Europe  Part 2 Introduction: architectural and social heritage in Europe  7. Spatial strategy process 2038+ in Rhenish Mining District and the consideration of the intangible cultural heritage  8. Repairing and caretaking or managing and curating: how to build a "milieu" in the post-mining region of Saint-Étienne (France)?  9. Working-class neighbourhoods as a resource: reconnecting form, use, and meaning for an inclusive transition. Immersion in a post-mining territory  10. Post-mining in a post-socialist context. Planeta Petrila, a long-term bottom-up strategy for a post-mining city and area.  11. Geographical and cultural limitations in the post-mining development strategy, case study from the Jiu Valley Coal Basin, Romania  12. Charleroi: landscape "as found" - mapping as a tool for visioning  Part 2 Conclusion  Part 3. Transformations of the great American landscapes  Part 3 Introduction  13. Ecological restoration infrastructure at the Copiapó River in a degraded post-mining landscape in Tierra Amarilla (Chile)  14. Brazilian post-mining context: the case of Minas Gerais region  15. The somewhere project  Part 3 Conclusion  Part 4. Prologue: mining stories  Part 4 Introduction  16. Materials and territory  17. Redescribing mining territories: literature, fragments, elements