Unfolding wasteland : a thick mapping approach to the transformation of charleroi’s industrial landscape

‘The land, so heavily charged with traces and with past readings, seems very similar to a palimpsest’ (Corboz 1985: 190). Any territory is the result of multiple and simultaneous processes; some are taking place spontaneously, others as the direct result of human interventions. (Secchi 1990; Secchi and Viganò 2009) For urbanists, a territory is a constructed physical and mental entity, where several socio-economic and cultural processes generated a juxtaposition of urban elements that at first sight seem to lack any coherence (De Meulder 2008). Nevertheless, a closer look allows an understanding into the order- ing logics that determine through time the continuous production and reproduction of space (Harvey 2001). These logics are embodied in the territory itself, making it comparable to a ‘palimpsest’, in which the traces of recent and ancient modifications ‘lie’ (Corboz 1985: 190). As Vittoria Di Palma suggests, each action on the territory, either good or bad, leaves traces and ‘we cannot wish them away’ (Di Palma 2014: 01).

• Tipo de recurso: Part of book
• Fecha de publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
• Repositorio: Expeditio: repositorio UTadeo
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/15697
• Acceso en línea: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/25026/Chapter05.pdf?sequence=1; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/15697; https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461662835
• Palabra clave: Industrial landscape; Arquitectura del paisaje; Urbanismo; Arquitectura
• License: Abierto (Texto Completo)