Sustainable Reconstruction of Historic Districts
Ideas Apropos of the First Steps Taken in Paris
Text and photos: Melinda Benkő
The research project carried out now at the Department of Urbanistics in BME (Budapest Technical University) has set the goal to define the criteria of the integrated sustainability of the urban rehabilitation of Budapest. Sustainability is now a basic concept of urbanistics, architecture, technical sciences, society and economy, but the majority of the projects realized so far and the principles defined in studies primarily simplify these issues to the problems of new developments. This article is based on technical materials, visits to the locations concerned and other information to give us a brief survey of the first steps made in Paris in the interest of the sustainable renovation of the inner city.