Parasite City: Retaining the Industrial District of Alexandria, Sydney as an Integral Part of Urban Regeneration

Abstract

Industrial lands are the most vulnerable urban typologies in areas undergoing urban regeneration. They are considered less adaptive to integrated residential typologies, and their legacies are threatened under fast gentrification. The goal of this paper is to explore a sustainable strategy to address the conflict between urban sprawl and industrial conservation in Alexandria, Sydney. Through the application of a sequential evolutionary simulation, the presented research proposes a potential mixed-use scheme to rejuvenate the existing industrial district of Alexandria in an integrative manner without necessitating its destruction. This paper provides a prototype of urban regeneration, optimised by a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, that demonstrates the necessity of industrial integration in the pursuit of true mixed use urban typologies.

A genetic algorithm-based design model to provide reduced risk areas for housing interiors

“…Wallacei X has been used in recent studies to solve optimization problems at various scales, including robotic pavilion design and production (Mostafavi et al , 2020), robotic fabrication-based façade assembly (Ali et al , 2021), form and façade design for a group of buildings (Jansen and Piatek, 2020; Showkatbakhsh and Kaviani, 2021), emergency settlements and refugee camps planning (Andriasyan et al , 2020) and urban regeneration (Chen et al , 2022).…”