The matter of retraining urban wasteland in german new Länder towns happens to occur at a time when demography is faced with a sharp drop. This is underscored by unfavourable economic conditions at that. There are plenty of urban wasteland and many others are looming because of the demolition work that needs to be done. One understands then how necessary it is for the participants to integrate the matter of urban wasteland into the process of urban tissue restructuring. The whole participants have little room for manoeuvre the more so as conflicting interests make it difficult to reach a compromise : the rehabilitation of urban tissue is therefore a slow, a long-term process.