Examining urban brownfields through the public health "macroscope".
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Examining urban brownfields through the public health "macroscope".
Efforts to cope with the legacy of our industrial cities--blight, poverty, environmental degradation, ailing communities--have galvanized action across the public and private sectors to move vacant industrial land, also referred to as brownfields, to productive use; to curb sprawling development outside urban areas; and to reinvigorate urban communities. Such efforts, however, may be proceeding...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.02110s2183