Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites

Samer Bagaeen (www.samerbagaeen.com) is a leading practitioner and educator based in the United Kingdom. He leads on town planning education at the University of Brighton and is Visiting Professor of Real Estate at the Institute of Urban Economy in Lima, Peru. He was invited in 2012 into eminent Fellowship of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and in 2013 was invited to join the Academy of Urbanism as an Academician. He recently co-edited Beyond Gated Communities (Routledge, 2015). His other research interests lie in the areas of real estate development and tourism and his publications in this field include ‘Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Qatar: Middle Eastern complexity and contradiction’ in G. Squires and E. Heurkens (eds) International Approaches to Real Estate Development (Routledge 2015); and ‘Tourism Development in Bahrain: Dealing with Change’ in M. Stephenson and A. al-Hamarneh (eds) International Tourism and the Gulf Cooperation Council States (Routledge 2016). Samer is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Trustee of two leading urban planning organisations in London, the Town and Country Planning Association and the Royal Town Planning Institute. Celia Clark (www.celiaclark.co.uk) has documented the transition of former defence sites to civilian uses in different parts of the world since the 1990s. She initiated a series of regional seminars and international conferences for planners and built environment professionals, academics, local governments and formerly defence dependent communities to share experience and good practice in these unusual land use transfers, with their myriads of stakeholders.　She helped found the Naval Dockyards Society in 1997 (http://navaldockyards.org). She put together the bid to inscribe Portsmouth Harbour, the Isle of Wight and Spithead onto the World　Heritage list. In 2000 the University of the West of England commissioned her report on differing futures for historic naval bases across Europe. At the University of Portsmouth she taught the history of architecture and building conservation to craftspeople. She was Education Officer of the Civic Trust from 1989 to 1991.

1. Framing military brownfields as a catalyst for urban regeneration –Samer Bagaeen

2. From Crown to commons? A UK perspective –Julian Dobson

3. Democracy, military bases, and marshmallows –Connor Ryan

4. Make art not war: Defence sites find new life as centres of creativity –Celia Clark

5. A parable: The emergence of ruderal ‘communities’ on former military bases in the UK–Fen B. Kipley

6. Communities old and new: Military brownfields and the Aldershot Urban Extension –Robert Adam

7. Twelve miles, eighteen years, and worlds apart: The cases of the Philadelphia Navy Yard and the Frankford Arsenal –Christopher A. Preble

8. Military sites conservation and regeneration in Taiwan –Yi-Jen Tseng

9. Military brownfields in the Netherlands: The revitalizations of the New Dutch Waterline (1980-2014) –Gerdy A. Verschuure-Stuip

10. The Regeneration of disused military airfields in China –Tang Yan and Yang Dong

11. Redeveloping Naval Air Station Brunswick: From a navy base to a great new place! –Steven Levesque

12. The Brooklyn Navy Yard revived: A defense conversion case study in the United States –Christopher A. Preble and Celia Clark

13. Conclusion: Diversity in the transformation of defense sites to new civilian life –Celia Clark