Glasgow is a city of industrial civilization. Since 1480, the number of factories along the river has increased rapidly, and the textile and chemical industries have proliferated. Large quantities of chemical pollutants are dumped into the soil. However, as the industrial structure of the city changed, many factories closed and relocated, leaving a large amount of industrial waste on site. By contrast, the new plant brought fresh pollution to Glasgow's soil. When surveying the soils of Glasgow today, it is found that the present soil pollution, including heavy metal pollution and organic pollution, is quite severe. There is also the problem of soil erosion. Therefore, on this basis, I found that the soil problems around the airport were more serious, which was taken as the site for my project.
Therefore, given the soil problem, the concept of the project is to start from the soil, purify the land, improve the quality of the land, reshape the ecological environment, and reconnect man and nature. The soil problems mainly come from cultivated land, airport, and existing factories. Farmland brings organic pollution, airports and factories bring heavy metal pollution to the surface and deep soil, and some buildings are abandoned on the site. It also erodes the soil as it hardens the site. These pollutants also flow into rivers through surface and groundwater runoff. It is necessary to control waste. Waste from the area is recycled and backfilled to reshape the terrain. Terrain reconstruction is based on rising sea levels and soil issues. After reclaiming and reshaping the topography, the purification of the soil begins. A plant purification method is introduced to purify the soil with a mixture of mycorrhizal plants and purification plants. After purification, the plants on the site will be harvested, and a new round of planting will start. Compound fertilizer plants will be planted to increase soil fertility and maintain soil moisture.
Finally, the restored site brings new vitality. As there are so many poor residents around the site, the airport factory will be flooded in the future, causing a lot of unemployment. The improved site retains the function of agricultural cultivation to promote the future economic development of the site. It will also increase non-human habitat, human-animal contact, and human-nature contact. Finally, after the recovery of green land, this kind of recovery mode is applied to other abandoned land with the same problem so that we can gradually recover the urban green space system, repair the living environment, and reconnect man and nature.
