While industrial and chemical innovations have contributed
extensively to human advancement, the darker part of their legacy
has been the hundreds of thousands of polluted sites left behind.
Governments at all levels have rallied to support the remediation
and reuse of these land resources and put many of the nation's
brownfields back into productive use. This book presents two dozen
brownfield projects in the United States that have incorporated
sustainability, highlighting project features, best management
practices, and lessons from the field regarding the underlying
policies and practices that enabled these projects to be completed
or, in some cases, stalled, altered or abandoned. The case studies
represent an array of brownfield projects that aimed to go beyond
conventional practice and include a range and variety of end uses
(e.g., corner gas stations, industrial, office, residential,
brightfields, green space, mixed-use, and transit-oriented
developments). The cases investigate site histories, planning and
development and examine sustainability characteristics to
understand how projects overcame the barriers to brownfield reuse
and the implementation of sustainability features and derive a
series of lessons learned, including innovative policies, programs,
and/or funding mechanisms that helped make these projects work.
Sustainable Brownfield Development will be of interest to
developers, planners, consultants and community representatives
interested in environmental policy, urban planning, community
development, ecological restoration, economic development, and
parks planning by providing direction and inspiration for those
eager to erase the blight of the past and build a more sustainable
future.
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