ABSTRACT
Abandoned industrial sites are often the starting point for urban redevelopment, forcing the involved actors to discuss which qualities are discarded, protected, and reused. Landscape biography can qualify such negotiation and ultimately influence how industrial sites are dealt with. The following is a case study of the ongoing redevelopment of the Carlsberg brewery in Copenhagen. The author emphasizes open spaces as important elements in the brewery’s emergence, and as possibly valuable figures for its future development. By bridging knowledge from the humanities and the design disciplines, deeper knowledge of the complex and often unseen open spaces of industry can be gained.
