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Title: Prioritizing Brownfields for Development: a GIS Tool and Indexing Scheme for Environmental, and Smart-Growth Factors

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: A key step to promoting smart growth in urban environments is the reclamation of dilapidated, underutilized or abandoned contaminated urban sites, also known as brownfields. Brownfield redevelopment promotes smart growth because it promotes land reuse in urban areas and economic and community vitality. Various transportation-related parameters influence the impact of brownfield restoration on the overall contribution to urban revitalization, such as the proximity of the developed property to public transport, highways and intersection density. Indexing schemes such as LEED ND can be utilized to assess these parameters and the smart growth potential of a brownfield. However, for a brownfield redevelopment project the environmental attributes of the contaminated land are equally important. Moreover, socioeconomic factors such as property values and the demographics of an area may be important for decision makers and fund allocation. This paper explores a prioritization scheme for brownfield redevelopment using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) implemented to visualize socioeconomic factors, smart growth and environmental attributes of brownfield sites and their surrounding areas. Its application to the City of New Haven, Connecticut as a case study demonstrates a general prioritization scheme that can be used by urban planners and public agencies to pinpoint smart growth and environmentally sensitive locations that can be set as priority areas for funding.

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Authors: Garrick, Norman; Chrysochoou, Maria; Segerson, Kathleen; Brown, Kweku T.; Granda-Carvajal, Catalina; Dahal, Geeta

Publisher: University of North Carolina

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other

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