1st Edition

Architecture, Landscape, and Design in Post-Mining Territories

Edited By Post-Mining Network Copyright 2026
238 Pages 191 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 191 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 191 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited collection explores how architects, planners, and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities. Chapters investigate how to move from an extractivist system towards a territorialist project, working towards the reappropriation of territorial resources after centuries of subordination of local and immigrant populations. The first part reviews cases from... Read more

General introduction: what can post-mining territories tell us about our conteemporary society?

Béatrice Mariolle

Part 1. The Nord and Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin, emblem of a post-mining territory in projects

Part 1 Introduction: The Nord and Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin, projects in an emblematic post-mining territory

Béatrice Mariolle

1. Loos-en-Gohelle, a resilient town

Jean-François Caron

2. The mining vine, a source of projects for the Nord Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Raphaël Alessandri

3. From extractivism to accimatisation: post-extractivist mining renovations in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin

Béatrice Mariolle

4. Light-touch retrofitting, earth, and textile

Martin Fessard

5. An architectural permanence to fight against energy poverty

Mélusine Pagnier

6. The electrician’s town

Philippe Prost

Part 1 Conclusion

Béatrice Mariolle

Part 2. Architectural and social heritage in Europe

Part 2 Introduction: architectural and social heritage in Europe

Béatrice Mariolle

7. Spatial strategy process 2038+ in Rhenish Mining District and the consideration of the intangible cultural heritage

Christa Reicher and Marie Enders

8. Repairing and caretaking or managing and curating: how to build a "milieu" in the post-mining region of Saint-Étienne (France)?

Georges-Henry Laffont

9. Working-class neighbourhoods as a resource: reconnecting form, use, and meaning for an inclusive transition. Immersion in a post-mining territory

Larissa Romariz Peixoto and Jean-Alexandre Pouleur

10. Post-mining in a post-socialist context. Planeta Petrila, a long-term bottom-up strategy for a post-mining city and area.

Cristina Sucala

11. Geographical and cultural limitations in the post-mining development strategy, case study from the Jiu Valley Coal Basin, Romania

Sanda Nicola and Serge Schmitz

12. Charleroi: landscape "as found" - mapping as a tool for visioning

Shubhra Kansal

Part 2 Conclusion

Béatrice Mariolle

Part 3. Transformations of the great American landscapes

Part 3 Introduction

Béatrice Mariolle

13. Ecological restoration infrastructure at the Copiapó River in a degraded post-mining landscape in Tierra Amarilla (Chile)

Johans Figueroa

14. Brazilian post-mining context: the case of Minas Gerais region

Renata Ribeiro Abreu Paranhos and Flavio de Lemos Carsalade

15. The somewhere project

Brent Sturlaugson

Part 3 Conclusion

Béatrice Mariolle

Part 4. Prologue: mining stories

Part 4 Introduction

Béatrice Mariolle

16. Materials and territory

Elena Cogato Lanza

17. Redescribing mining territories: literature, fragments, elements

Ruth Oldham and Laurie Gangarossa

Biography

The Post-Mining Network is an organisation that brings together people and institutions from the world of architecture and urban planning from over 25 countries. It was founded by the ‘Acclimatize post-mining territories’ chair created by Bétrice Mariolle, professor at the Ecole nationale supéieure d’architecture et de paysage de Lille and researcher at IPRAUS.