Australian cities have large urban footprints due to our auto-dependant societies. By adapting our disused industrial precincts into inner city residential space can we reduce urban sprawl?
I think so. Geelong is a good example with so many vacant and unused residential and commercial space in Geelong city. Hope that helps
Dear Alexandria
Very interesting as a matter of fact that this problem is not specific to Australian cities. In my opinion it would not integrate these industrial enclosures that are usually found in peri-urban areas in green frame that is our very updated daily. These green frames are not only an urban facility where people can recreate but they can become a real greening its biological corridor between the urban and the biodiversity that will settle in these industrial enclosures.
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We tried to study this question from the modeling of what we call "Heavy buildings", including old unused fortifications (case study), industrial areas, etc. The rehabilitation of these spaces leads to a compact city which can be criticized, but seems to lead to the decrease of land artificialisation and commuting distances (urban sprawl).
You will find an abstract here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265140655_Heavy_buildings_and_urban_renewal__an_agent-based_simulation_and_sustainability_assessment
Conference Paper "Heavy buildings" and urban renewal : an agent-based simulat...
Thankyou everyone for your help regarding this question. Jean-Philippe your paper on "heavy buildings" will be very useful, much appreciated!
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230738894_Peri-Urban_to_Urban_Landscape_Patterns_Elucidation_through_Spatial_Metrics
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229826816_Empirical_patterns_of_the_influence_of_Spatial_Resolution_of_Remote_Sensing_Data_on_Landscape_Metrics
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