Brownfields in the Czech Republic 1989–2009: The long path to integrated land management

Yaakov Garb and Jiřina Jackson

Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 2010, vol. 3, issue 3, 263-276

Abstract: It has been precisely two decades since the political transition in central Europe, which left post-socialist cities, and the Czech cities in particular, with a massive legacy of brownfields in key urban locations. This paper describes the causes and nature of this urban challenge, the growing awareness of brownfields as a problem, and the gradual emergence of the policies, institutions and understandings that allowed brownfields to begin to be brought back into substantial use. This broad historical picture is supplemented with a more detailed description of two current pressing issues (national level brownfield leadership and inventory). The paper concludes with a discussion of the broader lessons of these two decades for other places and other complex urban issues requiring broad integrative changes.

Keywords: Brownfields; post-socialist cities; urban planning; land use; strategic planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R00 Z33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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