Research On The Co-Regeneration Strategies Of Industrial Wasteland In Chinese Mining Cities

The Industrial Wasteland is the mirror of the recessionary mining city, reflecting both its crisis and hope. On the one hand, as the carrier of the city's crisis, it actually compromised the urban environment, economy and society; on the other, considering its possibility of being reused, it could be optimistically transformed into the positive factor for the rehabilitation process of the city in all probability. Thus, the start point of this paper is to find a way for the mining city to get out of the dilemma through the revival of the industrial wasteland.After a brief introduction on the general situation of the mining cities of China, this paper elucidated the definition, classification, distribution and the space structure of them, probing into the developing mechanism of the configuration of the city, and located the dominating problems and developing strategies. With this understanding, it delimited the basic concept of the industrial wasteland as well as the reason of its origin and its classification, pointing out the central problems in the reuse process of industrial wasteland in China, today.Thus, the system model of the industrial wasteland was established and its characteristics analyzed. With the Synergetics theory and method, this paper brought forward the concept of"Co-Regeneration", which determined the research framework.On this condition, the aim of system Co-Regeneration was analyzed, the general objective of system evolution, the objectives of sub-system evolution and the co-objectives of sub-systems proposed. Furthermore, the system working mechanism was probed into. By reference to such concepts in the Synergetics as the Order-Parameter which drives the system into orderly evolutions, and by distinguishing and describing the"Metaphor Order-Parameter"in the system co-regeneration of the industrial wasteland, this paper argued that the"Metaphor Order-Parameter"that constituted the sub-system of environment, economy, society and system as a whole was respectively the"ecosystem evolving", the"industrial structure optimizing", the"social interests maintaining"and the"circular economy developing". Taking this as the four frameworks of the reuse of the land, this paper discussed on the eleven approaches and the process of the reuse of the industrial wasteland. Then, it enumerated such methods to regenerate industrial wasteland and establishment as Land Art creation, Industrial Heritage conservation and reuse, landscape design, old industrial building adaptive reuse, and the contaminated site clearance, etc.At last, two case studies were taken into consideration as demonstration. The"Linxi mining area, Guye district, Tangshan"and the"Jiuli lake peripheries, Xuzhou"were of different types. New strategies for the renewal and reuse of land were brought forward after systematic analysis.