RE-CYCLES. Transnational revitalization of dismissed industrial brownfields in post-socialist cities along the Danube

Since industrial brownfields represent a sturdy problem for post-industrial territorial restructuring, this paper is meant to find new strategies able to define a multi-scalar action plan, by means of a landscape perspective, so as to recycle a transnational mesh of industrial brownfields within the ‘Horizontal Metropolis’. The chosen territory is represented by a network of post-socialist cities along the Danube. These historically hybrid cities are the result of both the ‘European city’ structure and the ‘Socialist city’ one, now submitted to the current capitalist homogenization of urban landscapes. The recent awareness about the lack of a strategic territorial vision for a smart growth of young ‘post-socialist cities’ has given a start to search for a new sustainable growth model, maintaining the city’s cultural identity. ‘Landscape Urbanism’ will be here introduced as a resistant medium to capitalist homogenization and an innovative discipline for territorial restructuring.