Tag Archives: Industrial

Among Former Coal Mines in France and Belgium

July 31, 2019 David Schalliol 1 Comment

Earlier this summer, I returned to France to continue working on my Hauts-de-France Mining Basin project and to present at a conference about resilience strategies. While there, I photographed throughout the region, including at high-profile coal mine redevelopment sites. Among those I visited are the 51N4E-designed C-Mine complex and Koen Vanmechelen’s Labiomista in Genk, Belgium, as well as the SANAA-designed Louvre Lens in Lens, France. Several of these photographs from the broader mining basin and former mines are below.

COAL MINE REDEVELOPMENT SITES
C-Mine (Genk, Belgium)

Thor Park (Genk, Belgium)

Koen Vanmechelen’s Labiomista (Genk, Belgium)

9-9 Bis (Oignies, France)

Mine, Terril du 11/19 (Loos-en-Gohelle, France)

Noyelles-sous-Lens Terril (Lens, France)

Louvre-Lens Museum (Lens, France)

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Houston, Texas, the Third Ward, and the Energy Economy

October 28, 2015 David Schalliol 3 Comments

Last week I made a short visit to Houston, Texas during the American Collegiate Schools of Planning conference. When I wasn’t downtown, I spent the majority of my free time in the Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods and home to Project Row Houses. The city’s lack of zoning and the neighborhood’s proximity to the central business district are producing new challenges for the community, which is threatened by residential developments that are physically and socially out of character with the neighborhood.

But a visit to Houston wouldn’t be complete without a visit to the region’s many industrial and oil service areas, so I spent an afternoon along the Houston Ship Channel in cities like Pasadena and later stopped by Chevron’s downtown facility.

The following images are highlights from that visit, although I will slowly post others to my Houston set.

The Third Ward

Beyond the Third Ward

Photograph, Text

Cleveland, Ohio

October 31, 2011 David Schalliol 4 Comments

Throughout October I looked forward to my recent trip to Cleveland, Ohio. Despite regularly visiting the city throughout the 1990s, I hadn’t spent any time there in a decade. I was anxious to see how some of the neighborhoods hardest hit by deindustrialization (and other critical social dynamics) had fared since earlier visits. With that in mind, I mainly focused on the East Side and the Cuyahoga Valley, although I covered considerable ground in a few busy days.

A handful of my favorite images from the visit are below, and additional images are available on my flickr account.

Special thanks go to Jeremy Shondrick for the company and wayfaring advice.