# Qualitative analysis as a tool for reducing investment risks in post-mining areas located in urban structures

## TL;DR

This paper explores how qualitative analysis can help reduce investment risks in urban post-mining areas by developing a model for assessing and revitalizing these spaces.

## Contribution

The paper introduces a multilevel audit model combining expert knowledge and user experience to assess post-mining urban areas.

## Key findings

- A systemic approach to post-mining areas can help avoid urban sprawl and preserve agricultural land.
- Expert and user input combined creates a practical tool for early-stage urban planning.
- The model supports the development of strategies to improve the utilitarian functions of revitalized spaces.

## Abstract

Urban development is not a process of even and planned progression on residential-industrial sites. Enclaves of high-standard space separate degraded and abandoned areas after industrial use has ended. The idea of the compact city is challenged by the need to search for niches for possible development and even to respond to crisis situations. Changing the approach to postmining sites located inside urban spaces generates an alternative to urban sprawl and the squandering of the stock of fertile suburban agricultural land. The aim of this article is to draw attention to the urban presence of postmining sites, to take a systemic view of ways to identify and describe their specific elements and to determine their impact, from the perspective of different user groups, on the quality of space. This research combined expert knowledge and the practical experience of users to create a model for a multilevel audit of postmining spaces. Knowledge about the postmining environment was transferred to landscape and urban design, creating a universal tool for developing strategies to increase the standard utilitarian functions of revitalized postmining areas. This tool will be useful at an early stage of urban development, management and planning.