This first phase of development addressed a global mobility issue for the City area, which opened the station to the north and made it accessible to all travel modes. The trigger for the regeneration project was the Viotte station’s transformation into a 2-ha multi-modal hub. The Pôle Viotte neighbourhood is designed as a new dense and mixed vibrant sustainable neighbourhood where it will be possible to work, live, do daily shopping, move around, or travel. Since 2008, the city of Besançon has been supporting a global project to reclaim the urban brownfield site surrounding the Viotte railway. Figure 10.7 locates the brownfield within the city of Besançon.įull size image 1.2 Description of the Urban Brownfield Regeneration Project Figures 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6 give an overview of the initial situation of the brownfield site. Figure 10.2 is an aerial view of the brownfield site before the start of the regeneration project. It benefits from a location that is both privileged-its proximity to the historical city centre-and strategic, due to the expanded transport offer of the Besaçon-Viotte railway station (TGV, regional train, tram, bus, etc.), which can help promote economic development. The urban brownfield is accessed mainly by Avenue de la Paix to the south and Rue Nicolas Bruand to the north. The Parc des Glacis, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, forms a green corridor towards the city centre. It is located at the intersection of the Charpais and Saint-Claude neighbourhoods, near the Battant neighbourhood and the glacis (paved wall) of Vauban ramparts, which was transformed into a public park in 2013.
The brownfield site has a global hold of 11 hectares in the city, including the surface occupied by railways and various neglected spaces. Only a few jobs linked to the SNCF (the French National Railway Company) remained on site. The steep drop in level between the northern sector and the southern sector, as well as the lack of vitality of in situ activities, accentuated the barrier created by the railways.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Viotte site embodied a typical urban brownfield, breaking with its context. 10.3) in 2001 caused the loss of several jobs.
More specifically, the closure of the old Sernam Hall (Fig. It added to the decline in rail operations throughout the site. The railway station was built in 1885 and then rebuilt in 1962 to make room for underground circulation systems, which later became difficult to access and illegible for users. Railway activities characterize the Viotte site. 1.1 Description of the Urban Brownfield Site Finally, we show the overall monitoring results using the graph display of SIPRIUS+ as well as an analysis of the monitoring tool’s potential to facilitate the integration of sustainability issues into the project dynamics of a neighbourhood in transition.
Then, we present the detailed monitoring results of the context, project, and governance indicators illustrated by the evolution displays of SIPRIUS+. We start with a description of the urban brownfield site, followed by the regeneration project. Interactions with project stakeholders reveal that, while the use of such a tool would require a change in project management, the evolutions to adopt to include this practice appear not only feasible but realistic and desired. The operational monitoring tool is expected to contribute to decision-making in a multi-disciplinary manner, without giving ready-made solutions. Finally, we conclude that SIPRIUS+ has the potential to contribute to the integration of sustainability issues into the dynamics of neighbourhoods in transition. Through this analysis, we identify four actions to improve sustainability objectives. Then, we analyse the overall results, which allows us to assess the sustainability strategy of the regeneration project. Each monitoring result is illustrated by a graph showing the evolution of the performances. Then, we evaluate 52 indicators linked to the context, project, and governance. We start with a description of the brownfield site, followed by the regeneration project. We present an application of the operational monitoring tool SIPRIUS+ to an ongoing case study representative of urban brownfield regeneration projects: the Pôle Viotte neighbourhood, located in Besançon (France).
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