Revitalizing urban spaces: Ten key lessons from the “Viaduc des arts” adaptive reuse and placemaking

This study focuses on the adaptive reuse and placemaking of the Viaduc des Arts,an obsolete viaduct in Paris,and examines its impact on the city’s economic,urban,cultural,and sustainable identities.It aims to showcase unconventional solutions applied to create an elevated linear park and a coherent commercial identity under the vaults while enhancing the district’s imageability and attractiveness.Employing a mixed-methods approach,this study analyzes various action modes in architectural and urban regeneration,highlighting ten valuable lessons learned from the Viaduc des Arts rehabilitation.These lessons provide crucial insights into effective urban regeneration and placemaking strategies,emphasizing the need to update objectives and employ appropriate methodologies for future projects.The Viaduc des Arts serves as a paradigmatic case study,demonstrating the successful transformation of an obsolete viaduct into a commercial,vibrant cultural,and urban space,underscoring the importance of updating urban regeneration objectives.

An Approach to Design Reusable Workflow Engine

Developers still need design workflow system according to users＇ specific needs, though workflow management coalition standardized the five kinds of abstract interfaces in workflow reference model. Specific business process characteristics are still supported by specific workflow system. A set of common functionalities of workflow engine are abstracted from business component, so the reusability of business component is extended into workflow engine and composition method is proposed. Needs of different business requirements and characteristics are met by reusing the workflow engine.

The museum method of reusing Shanghai waterfront industrial heritage:continuation and reconstruction of urban memory

In the context of transforming traditional labour-intensive industries into the service economy in China,the reuse of industrial heritage as museums has become a trend,for example,along Shanghai waterfronts,gradually fuelling the continuation of urban memory,reshaping urban cultural identity and promoting the development of the waterfront economy.Additionally,the connotation of a museum is continually being expanded from an institution to a method,and the major function is gradually shifting from collection to display.Previous studies on Shanghai waterfront industrial heritage have mostly referred to cultural factors,but these factors are still mainly included in macroscale large waterfront projects or microscale single practical project analyses.Mesoscale typology discussions between the two are rare.Therefore,this paper examines eleven industrial heritage sites that have been repurposed as museums along Shanghai waterfronts to analyse the urban memory elements of industrial heritage and summarise three classes of memory interpretation strategies:translating memory information,renovating memory carriers,and relating memory clues.Finally,the advantages and disadvantages of the study cases are discussed separately,and the following corresponding recommendations are made:1)further enrich and balance memory interpretation strategies;2)enhance the rationality,service,and tolerance of the“exhibition+”mode;and 3)improve local laws and regulations related to the protection and utilisation of industrial heritage to provide references for similar reuse designs.