The title aims right at the core of the concerns of many within the ground engineering industry who are grappling with the problems of redevelopment and regeneration of urban areas in formerly industrialized regions. Unfortunately, the volume fails to focus on what many might consider to be the principle issues, including groundwater, contamination and the character of anthropogenic ground. Perhaps use of terms such as ‘applied geology’, ‘built environment’ or ‘mining legacy’ rather than ‘urban geology’ might have more successfully conveyed the concepts which this volume encompasses.
This book presents a compilation of 35 papers concerning a wide variety of projects, but there is little text to draw the threads together. Indeed, 20% of the papers are not strictly concerned with urban areas in Wales at all, such as mineral resources (e.g. Paper 31 on exploration …
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