Key-words: Arade River, Culture, Industrial Heritage, Landscape Reclamation, Sustainable Development,

Abstract: The concept of cultural heritage has clearly meant different things to different groups of scholars and the public interested in reclaiming traditions and cultural landscapes. Changes associated with urban growth often involve the destruction of built characteristics and natural elements, eradicating the physical expression of former indigenous ways of life that are a very important part of people’s culture. This fact was particularly evident after the Second World War, when industrial landscapes faced deep transformations that in several cases contributed to its dereliction and to the disappearance of numerous industrial values, commonly known as industrial heritage. This phenomenon added to the necessity of reusing abandoned industrial landscapes in detriment of consuming new ones, increases the need to enlarge the interpretation of the term “cultural heritage”, to analyse and interpret the value and significance of post-industrial landscapes and to develop new mechanisms to preserve it. Furthermore, it is increasingly acknowledged that the values connected with culture and heritage are highly significant for people’s lives and need to be identified and highlighted. This paper presents a set of design principles that will be applied to the post-industrial landscape of left margin to the Arade River. These principles describe in a general manner the ways in which relevant resources created and deposited by the industrial society can be enhanced and how they can best be reclaimed and used