Abstract: The redevelopment of former industrial sites can have positive impacts on the environment, economic development, and quality of life in a given community. The federal brownfields initiative of the 1990s was intended to ...

Abstract: Whereas brownfield development is of widespread interest, there is scant literature on the environmental impacts of brownfield developments relative to conventional developments. We assembled a set of two residential ...

Abstract: Brownfields are potential development opportunities for the communities in which these old industrial sites sit. The Western Pennsylvania Brownfields Center at Carnegie Mellon University has developed and tested a ...