Post-industrial Landscape – physical changes and social consequences
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
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| Description | Post-industrial landscapes represent a typical phenomenon relatively very common in the highly industrialized countries, especially in Europe, Northern America and former Soviet Union. Areas abandoned by the industry (brown fields) carry not only buildings and constructions from the industrial era as a cultural and technical heritage but also changes in physical base of the landscape: human made land forms, water bodies, soil deposition, synanthropic vegetation and animal world. There are many other structural changes in the landscape originally related with the industry, after its fall seek new utilizing, as well as workers colonies, storehouses, buildings of intensive agricultural animal food production, abandoned vegetable fields, glasshouses, rail manipulation areas, cargo railway stations etc. The origin of the post-industrial landscape is correlated with the stages of economic and technological development that is why such phenomenon is generated repeatedly during the last 250 years. There are some landscapes in Europe and in Czech Republic as well where more generations of the industrial heritage objects are present at the present time. |