Brownfields Redevelopment and the Quest for Sustainability

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-08-045358-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 678 g

Reihe: Current Research in Urban and Regional Studies

This book examines the nature of urban brownfields redevelopment in North America over the last two decades, outlining the reasons for its emerging success and critically examining how affected stakeholders have overcome the numerous challenges facing such redevelopment. As in Europe, there has been growing interest in the United States and Canada in renewing urban areas for the purpose of improving the quality of city life and achieving more sustainable development. In this regard, the redevelopment of the hundreds of thousands of brownfields that dot the urban landscape has received particular attention from policy makers and urban environmental researchers because of the wide-ranging social, economic, and environmental benefits that such redevelopment can generate for communities. This book will have impact in North America and Europe, especially in regard to the array of policy tools discussed.

- A study of the nature of urban brownfields redevelopment in North America over the
last two decades.
- Outlines the reasons behind the emerging success of recent brownfields
redevelopment.
- Critically examines how affected stakeholders have overcome the numerous
challenges facing brownfields redevelopment

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sousa, Christopher de

de Sousa, Christopher

Tiesdell, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Brownfields Background; Brownfields and Sustainable Development; Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Brownfields; Brownfields, Housing, and Building Sustainable Communities; Urban Housing Policies and Visions; From Brownfields to Housing: An In-Depth Look at Redevelopment Activity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois; Housing Case Studies; Policy and Vision; The Nature of Brownfield to Greenspace Projects; Brownfields to Greenspace Case Studies; Back to Work - Brownfields redevelopment for industrial and employment reuse; Work Policies and Visions; Brownfields to Work: Trends, Programs and Case Studies; Towards the Promise of Brownfields Redevelopment