Erasmus programme on Urban Peripheries

I've been meaning to write about this workshop I attended this year in Bucharest, on Urban Peripheries, which is a very hot topic especially in the context of shrinking vs expanding cities. In any case, it is a difficult area to deal with, for the administration of a large city and the solution that the students (German, Belgium, Estonian, Romanian) came up with was using new resources for the benefit of the people and environment.

 We had to imagine scenarios of how majore driving forces would affect our site and then try to predict an outcome by sketching a masterplan for that particular area.(the South Eastern entrance in the city of Bucharest, Romania). Moreover, discover a way for that master plan to be implemented within an gouvernace and sustenability model.

 Our team (no.6) predicted an "Green Revolution" among people who want to reclaim the land and put it to good use through permaculture, and re-shaping the riverscape to a more natural and sustainable form, and introducing forestry as a protective structure in the landscape. It has been a very interesting journey and I learned a lot about the social, economic, political aspects of landscape planning, not only the design process itself.

Image on site of the Greenhouses at Popesti Leordeni

 More about the site, the objectives, and the solutions of the workshop:

 This is the broshure with all the students projects: