Urban wastelands: a form of urban nature?

In: Cities and Nature

Abstract

PART I: Uses, rules and conflicts about nature in urban wastelands -- Chapter 1. The urban wasteland, spatial expression of a transition of uses: cross-media contributions art, ecology and geography (Cieslik) -- Chapter 2. Recent developments in the legal framework of urban wastelands: to better take into account nature in the city (Chapouton) -- Chapter 3. Dwelling in urban wastelands: a disputed nature (Mattoug) -- Chapter 4. Between privatization and publicising, which place for nature in the frame of urban wastelands' reconversion? (Lotz) -- Chapter 5. Long-standing wastelands: transactions, publicising Vs privatising and green settings on two urban wastelands in Tirana and Istanbul (Dorso & Muci) -- PART II: Contaminated soils in urban wastelands -- Chapter 6. Ecological restoration of contaminated brownfield sites in urban areas: what perspectives in the context of European policies and national regulatory contexts? (Limasset) -- Chapter 7. Social representations of nature regarding (soil-)contaminated brownfields in France (Tendero) -- Chapter 8. Brownfield gardens and contaminated soils (Petit-Berghem) -- PART III: Urban wastelands and waterfronts -- Chapter 9. Wastelands at city-port interfaces: the search of water spaces to evade urban tumults (Mazy) -- Chapter 10. The requalification of urban riversides: environmental and social issues at stake (Carrière) -- Chapter 11. Becoming wastelands: the captation areas of the traditional water management system of Tamil Nadu (India) (Verdelli) -- PART IV: Wastelands in the urban green network -- Chapter 12. The conditions that make urban wastelands reservoirs of biodiversity for cities (Machon) -- Chapter 13. Vacant lots' urban landscape and legacies: which influence on plant communities? (Brun) -- Chapter 14. Generalised and temporary greening on deconstructed urban wastelands: an opportunity for biodiversity (Lemoine) -- Chapter 15. Approaches to develop urban wastelands as elements of green infrastructure including the perception and use by residents (Mathey) -- Chapter 16. How informal open spaces contribute to the metropolitan park system? The case of Brussels and its semi-naturals spaces (Vanbutsele).