Breaking the barriers of former military sites in Europe. Insights for urban regeneration

This session presents the results of the disposal policies of military land in Europe since the 1980s. It shows the consequences of the tendency to privatize public land on the basis of neoliberal approaches to public policy and urban governance that privilege markets, empower self-interested economic actors, and reduce the public good to an aggregation of private interests. The aim is to identify factors in this transition from military to civilian that impede cross-border cooperation in favour of learning from countries whose disposal policies result in more local community-centered and sustainable land uses.