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Reintegrating Cold War landscapes? The former Trieste Barracks in Casarsa della Delizia
Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal,
17
(2),
217-230
(2023)
Abstract
This paper engages with a specific feature of former military landscapes, the Cold War barracks, located in a specific territory, the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in north-eastern Italy, at the former border between the Western and Eastern blocs. Based on several academic activities, such as an international workshop and didactical experiences, this work focuses on the Trieste Barracks in Casarsa della Delizia (in the province of Pordenone) as a laboratory for new landscape solutions to reintegrate a derelict military site into civil society. The main outputs of the research are: 1) updating the international scientific literature and the relative research gaps in the discourse of Cold War post-military landscapes; and 2) an innovative landscape-oriented approach to a former military landscape founded on locally based long-term solutions in terms of resilience and sustainable development. Our research aims to demonstrate that Cold War landscapes have primarily been neglected in the academic field, but academic work in collaboration with local actors can result in feasible solutions to export to other cases.
Keywords: former military landscapes; urban voids; urban regeneration; place-based approach; heritage; tangible/intangible values
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Author's Biography
Federico Camerin , MA in spatial planning (2014), holds a double PhD degree awarded by University of Valladolid (Spain) and Bauhaus University Weimar (Germany) within the European Joint Doctorate ‘UrbanHist’ (2020). He was a fellow (2014–15/2016–17) and post-doc (2021) researcher at University Iuav of Venice (Italy) and is currently a post-doc researcher ‘Margarita Salas’ for the University of Valladolid and University Politécnica of Madrid. His research interests are planning, planning history, urban governance and urban regeneration.
Luca Maria Francesco Fabris Luca M. F. Fabris obtained a PhD in environmental technology, a Master’s in urban planning and environment and is a Professor of architectural technology at the Politecnico in Milan, teaching architecture and landscape architecture. He writes for ThePlan and ABITARE and is Scientific Director of YouBuild magazine. He is a visiting professor at European, American and Asian universities (Distinguished Expert at BUCEA — 北京建筑大学特聘专家) where he focuses on the contemporary built environment and sustainability issues.
