Recycling urban vacant land inch by inch, row by row: neighbors reclaim neighborhoods

Rosalind Greenstein and Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz

Communities and Banking, 2006, issue Spr, 18-20

Abstract: Vacant, abandoned, and contaminated properties in urban areas can provide opportunities for neighborhood transformation- even new jobs. Examples in the Northeast show that sometimes all it takes to get the ball rolling is a group of visionary gardeners.

Keywords: Land use; Brownfields; Community development corporations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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