1.

What are the considerations or problems or conditions for a physical revitalization of a

community/ neighbourhood/ urban area/ city

PHYSICAL

Urban decay

It is also known as urban rot and urban blight. It is the process by which a previously functioning city, or
part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. It may show deindustrialization, depopulation or
changing of population, restructuring, abandoned buildings and infrastructure, high
local unemployment, fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and a desolate
cityscape. Urban decay has no single cause. It results from combinations of inter-related socio-
economic conditions including the city's urban planning decisions, tight rent control, the poverty of the
local populace, the construction of freeway roads and rail road lines that bypass or run through the
area, depopulation by suburbanization of peripheral lands, real estate neighbourhood redlining, and
immigration restrictions.

Dilapidated structures

It is when building or structures falls into decay or ruin due to age, misuse or neglect. It will make the
structure unsafe and unhabitable. It may cause accidents or disaster to the neighbourhood around it.
ECONOMIC

Low revenue, economic, and businesses opportunity activity

Low business opportunity makes the community non-profitable and less progressive. Less job or
business opportunities may cause migration of the people. They will transfer to places with more
opportunity. This problem may also connect to the social problem in a community. It may cause crimes
or schemes to make profit and to live.

SOCIAL

Behaviour and lack of discipline

Lack of discipline may cause many problems to the environment, economic and social. Pollutions are
caused by the negligence of the people. Their lack of discipline in throwing trash and cleaning lead the
community to disaster. Crimes are also part in the behaviour. If the community is full of crimes it will
make the neighbourhood unsafe to live. It will cause pull outs of businesses and migration of the
people. It will also create slums or squatters.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Brownfields

Brownfields are the conversion of the industrial area into another business or community. It shows that
the community can no longer support the business and will transform into another.
2. Look for a community/ neighbourhood/ urban area/ city that were or had been subjected to
development (sort of examples) or revitalization.

Riverbanks Center also known as Marikina Riverbanks/Marikina Riverbanks is an eco-friendly

integrated development complex for shopping, recreational, business and commercial along A.
Bonifacio Avenue adjacent to Marikina River in Barangka, Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is
home of the Philippine's biggest outdoor amphitheater and outlet centers, and the location of once the
world's largest pair of shoes. Riverbanks Center is located on a 23 hectares (57 acres) site which
formerly held a Universal Textile Mills Factory. Asia's largest textile mills at that time The Riverbanks
Development Corporation acquired the site in 1995. It opened to the public in April 1999.

BEFORE

AFTER