Effects of Environmental Hazards and Regulation on Urban Redevelopment

Effects of Environmental Hazards and Regulation on Urban Redevelopment
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) presents information on a report entitled "The Effects of Environmental Hazards and Regulation on Urban Redevelopment," published in February 1998. The report discusses how brownfields impede the revitalization of distressed communities and ways to overcome these impediments. Brownfields are vacant or underused industrial sites with environmental contamination caused by chemical compounds and other hazardous substances.

Urban Affairs and Planning

Urban Affairs and Planning
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) presents a collection of articles on urban affairs and planning in the United States. The articles cover such topics as the effects of environmental hazards and the regulation of urban redevelopment, redeveloping brownfields, and urban policy.

Urban Environmental Planning

Urban Environmental Planning
Author: Gert de Roo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1351876643

Originally published in 1997, Urban Environmental Planning provides a groundbreaking overview of innovative methods and techniques for measuring and managing the environmental effects of urban land uses on other urban activities. Fully revised and updated, this second edition brings together a team of leading environmental planners and policy makers from the US, UK, Europe and SE Asia to address the central questions confronting sustainable urban development. Typical questions include: How can you measure and manage the negative environmental effects of intrusive urban activities such as manufacturing and transport on sensitive land uses including residential and recreational areas? Can a balance be found between reducing these effects through means such as separating conflicting land uses? While other sources identify the need for effective programmes to improve urban environmental quality, this volume describes and assesses analytical methods and implementing programmes practised by leading communities around the world.

Brownfields, Risk-Based Corrective Action, and Local Communities

Brownfields, Risk-Based Corrective Action, and Local Communities
Author: Peter B. Meyer
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2011-04
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1437980449

Addresses the problems facing communities that suffer both environ. risks from past contamination and depressed economic activity. In such settings, redevelopment of contaminated sites and the associated economic development may require compromised standards for environmental mitigation. But partial cleanups can be shown to face inevitable failure at some future date. Thus, in such an approach, communities face risks that they should be capable of accepting or rejecting. The study considers these risks and assesses 4 alternative land use control strategies for assuring community participation in making decisions about both the cleanup process today and the response to risks of failure in the future. Illus. This is a print on demand report.