Brownfield Development: A Comparison of North American and British Approaches

David Adams, Christopher De Sousa and Steven Tiesdell
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David Adams: Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, 25 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS, UK, d.adams@lbss.gla.ac.uk
Christopher De Sousa: Department of Urban Planning and Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Bolton Hall, Room 410, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201-0413, USA, desousa@uwm.edu
Steven Tiesdell: Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, 25 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS, UK, s.tiesdell@lbss.gla.ac.uk

Urban Studies, 2010, vol. 47, issue 1, 75-104

Abstract: Over the past 30—40 years, urban change and deindustrialisation in advanced economies have created a legacy of vacant and derelict land that is increasingly seen as a development opportunity rather than planning problem. This paper investigates how the shared challenge of bringing such brownfield sites back into productive use has been interpreted differently in four countries: the US, Canada, Scotland and England. In each case, the particular policy environment has shaped the brownfield debate in distinctive ways, producing a different set of relations between the public and private sectors in brownfield redevelopment. Through this detailed comparison of the North American and British experience, the paper traces the maturity of policy and seeks to discover whether the main differences in understanding and tackling brownfield land can be attributed primarily to physical, cultural or institutional factors.

Date: 2010
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