Author(s)

N. Marchettini, F.M. Pulselli & R. Ridolfi

Abstract

The importance of reusing abandoned or idle territory is becoming fundamental because of the lack of building sites and productive land. Different options of territorial recovery exist; in many cases of brownfield redevelopment the project is a reclamation of the site and the construction of other structures or buildings. In this paper we present a kind of recovery that considers the option of restoring the initial ecosystem. We consider a project of reforestation in the landfills of the Santa Barbara mines. These mines, located between the Province of Firenze and Arezzo, were rich in lignite. The excavation of this material has produced a great quantity of sterile land, about 360,000,000 m3 collocated in landfills close to the mines. In the 1970s a project of redevelopment of this area began with the part

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