“…Municipal policies have so far negatively assessed abandoned brownfields deeming them a negative feature of urban landscape and literally calling them "wasteland areas" with no useful purpose in the urban fabric. However, perception of such areas has had to change due to their increasing numbers -the phenomenon triggered among others by: deindustrialisation, globalisation, dominance of neoliberalism (Matoga, 2019;Madanipour, 2017a;Olbińska, 2020), mass media revolution (Ricci, 2017, Olbińska, 2020, urban shrinkage (Honeck, 2017; Wehle-Strzelecka, Strzelecka-Seredyńska, 2021) or suburbanisation (Madanipour, 2017a; Nemeth, Langhorst, 2013; Olbińska, 2020) as well as the economic crisis in 2008 (Martin et al, 2020). In view of foregoing, abandoned structures called for some strategy of recycling and reusing (Galdini, 2020).…”