Cities Stories: Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem in Baia Mare

Baia Mare is a municipality along the Sasar River in north-western Romania. The city is currently transitioning from its past as Romania's mining capital towards a new sustainable social, economic and environmental development model.
The SPIRE project, following the triple bottom line (TBL), initially tackles the challenges urban ecosystems suffer at the nexus of the economy-society-environment. It seeks to apply adaptive phytoremediation to contaminated land, to generate a new and dynamic land-use management through participatory planning, and to create new local value systems.