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Table 1. Characteristics of post-military sites in Western and Eastern Europe 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Western Europe Eastern Europe ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Economic in/direct job losses poor conversion viability abundance of sites poor infrastructure quality ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Political decision-making unclear land ownership regarding base closure lack of political capacity ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Social loss of long traditions vandalism in sites local / non-local staff closed military towns ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Cultural preservation of gender perspectives military heritage memories of occupation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Environmental economic viability serious pollution of clean up endangers the re-use ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Thus reuse of post-soviet areas, which were originally built for residential purposes is the task of ReMiDo Project. All the examined cases are located in Eastern Europe. Aim The aim with this comparative case study is to map out the current planning situation and discuss planning strategies for post-military residential areas with different potentials for a positive development. This study is based on the Report for the ReMiDo project titled “Participatory Processes for Sustainable Development of Former Military Sites in the Baltic Countries” 4 , which emphases the importance of stakeholder par- 3 Jauhiainen, Jussi (2005) in Vestbro (ed) Managing the built environment and remediation of brownfields, BUUF, Uppsala University, 4 Elfors, Susanna (2007) Participatory Processes for Sustainable Development of Former Military Sites in the Baltic Countries, Report for the ReMiDo project, KTH, Stockholm 6
ticipation for sustainable development of former military sites. One of the proposed approaches Participatory Action Research was an inspiration to carry out stakeholders’ workshop and groups interviews and to map out the current planning situation and discuss planning strategies for the future. In order to analyze the data, the researchers compared data from different sources. Selection of cases The Swedish partners have done a comparative case study based on three cases: Marciena, Liepa and Valga, all located in Eastern Europe. Selection criterion was to find contrasting cases. Selected cases differ in size, location (peripheral or central) and the potential for positive development. In addition they have been rationally selected on basis of previous ReMiDo-research, explicit: • A typology (categories and indicators for categorizing) of cases of post-Soviet residential military areas in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, outlined by Uwe Sassenberg (figure 1) 5 • The three objects represent two different categories of cases: Valga has middle potential for positive development, Marciena and Liepa has low potential Figure 1. Cases of post-Soviet military areas in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (cities, trend and potential) Historical Nonhistorical The trend-variable presumes historical and non-historical cases: historical cases as old-fashioned buildings and environment with attractive water- 5 Uwe Sassenberg, typology presented at ReMiDo Steering Committee Meeting in Riga 17 January 2007. Trend Kaunas Vilnius Liepaja Paldiski Valga Gorzow High Middle Low Marciena Liepa Potential 7
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people were present. 144 This infor
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The area is of cultural importance,
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Buildings have been mostly in hands
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asketball stadium and service build
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are differences between the buildin
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Parking needs, greenery and archite
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Conclusions and discussion The aim
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Table 4. Segment of occupied apartm
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