Alpine Industrial Landscapes Transformation - Project Handbook

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figure 3: Discussing the future of the site at a test-design workshop
covered by the Technical University of Munich through its
Chair of Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscapes
(project initiator and lead) and the Chair of Restoration
Ecology respectively. Urban planning, with a major focus on
strategic planning, is covered by the Polytechnic University
of Milan through its Department of Architecture and Urban
Studies. Expertise in regional planning is provided by the
Technical University of Vienna, through the Department of
Spatial Planning. The necessary competencies in social and
economic sciences are the responsibility of the University of
Verona, and in particular the Department of Human Sciences
and the Department of Economics. Landscape analysis and
territorial cohesion policies are provided by the University of
Ljubljana through its Department of Landscape Architecture.
To this rich and diversified corpus of scientific expertise is
added the valuable local know-how from four regional and
local communities. The latter is identified according to their
relevance as pilot areas for the entire Alpine region, as well
as for their inherent cultural, geographical and economic
diversity. Each community, represented by a regional
development agency, joined the project by providing one
brownfield site (pilot site) of local and regional relevance.
The CAUE, Conseil d’Architecture, d’Urbanisme et de
l’Environnement, of Vaucluse represents the south-western
French Alpine regions and, in particular, the community
of the Pays des Écrins in the Hautes-Alpes department,
bringing to the project the Pechiney site, former aluminium
smelter, in L’Argentière-la Bessée. The territorial development
agency LAMORO represents the Maritime Alps region in
south Piedmont (Italy), and in particular the community of