1st Edition
Sustainable Brownfield Development Building a Sustainable Future on Sites of our Polluting Past
1. Brownfields Background 2. Sustainability and Brownfields 3. Industrial and Commercial Redevelopment 4. Office Redevelopment 5. Residential Redevelopment 6. Green and Community Space Redevelopment 7. Corner Gas Station Brownfields 8. Main Streets, Neighborhoods, and Towns 9. Mixed-Use Complete Communities 10. Brightfields 11. Project Characteristics and Lessons Learned
Biography
Christopher De Sousa is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University and was previously at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research focuses on brownfields redevelopment in the United States and Canada. De Sousa is past President of the Canadian Brownfields Network, a Steering Committee Member of the US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Brownfields/Land Reuse Health Initiative, and on the Management Committee of Ryerson’s Center for Urban Research and Land Development.
"In recent years, greater awareness of urban decay has inspired a number of publications describing how human activity has significantly contributed to the environmental contamination. This book contributes to the growing scholarly literature of applied studies about environmentally compromised areas throughout the US. Each chapter provides historical background, explains how particular areas are being dealt with and, more important, that they are becoming durably sustainable locations through innovative management procedures designed to help control or reduce risk."
L. Yacher, Professor Emeritus, Southern Connecticut State University
