Urban Wastelands: A form of urban nature?

Introduction. Urban wastelands: a form of urban nature? (Di Pietro & Robert)

PART I. Uses, rules and conflicts about nature in urban wastelands

Chapter 1. The urban wasteland, spatial expression of a transition of uses: cross-media contributions art, ecology and geography (Cieslik et al.)

Chapter 2. Recent developments in the legal framework of urban wastelands: to better take into account nature in the city (Chapouton)

Chapter 3. Dwelling in urban wastelands: a disputed nature (Mattoug)

Chapter 4. Between privatization and publicising, which place for nature in the frame of urban wastelands' reconversion? (Lotz)

Chapter 5. Long-standing wastelands: transactions, publicising Vs privatising and green settings on two urban wastelands in Tirana and Istanbul (Dorso & Muci)

PART II. Contaminated soils in urban wastelands

Chapter 6. Ecological restoration of contaminated brownfield sites in urban areas: what perspectives in the context of European policies and national regulatory contexts? (Limasset et al.)

Chapter 7. Social representations of nature regarding (soil-)contaminated brownfields in France (Tendero & Bazart)

PART III. Urban wastelands and waterfronts

Chapter 9. Wastelands at city-port interfaces: the search of water spaces to evade urban tumults (Mazy)

Chapter 10. The requalification of urban riversides: environmental and social issues at stake (Carrière & Hochart)

Chapter 11. Becoming wastelands: the captation areas of the traditional water management system of Tamil Nadu (India) (Verdelli & Chandana)

PART IV. Wastelands in the urban green network

Chapter 12. The conditions that make urban wastelands reservoirs of biodiversity for cities (Machon et al.)

Chapter 13. Vacant lots' urban landscape and legacies: which influence on plant communities? (Brun et al.)

Chapter 15. Approaches to develop urban wastelands as elements of green infrastructure including the perception and use by residents (Mathey, Rößler & Banse)

Chapter 16. How informal open spaces contribute to the metropolitan park system? The case of Brussels and its semi-naturals spaces (Vanbutsele)

Conclusion. Wastelands of the Anthropocene: from margins to center (Beau)