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May 2002, Vol 92, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 703-705
© 2002 American Public Health Association

EDITORIAL

Should Housing Be Built on Former Brownfield Sites?

Michael Greenberg, PhD

The author is with Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Michael Greenberg, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, 33 Livingston Avenue, Suite 100, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1958 (e-mail: mrg@rci.rutgers.edu).


   INTRODUCTION
 
Brownfields are abandoned or underutilized industrial and commercial sites that are, or are perceived to be, chemically, physically, or biologically contaminated.1 In the early 1990s, a coalition of big-city mayors and legislators from urban industrial states pressured the US Congress and the US Environmental Protection Agency to start a pilot program that would turn these eyesores into new factories, businesses, and other job- and tax-creating activities. Housing was not an initial focus.


   ARGUMENTS FOR BUILDING
 
By 1997, public opposition to building housing and schools and creating open spaces on brownfields yielded for 3 practical reasons. First, brownfields were considered to be a ready . . . [Full Text]


   ARGUMENTS AGAINST BUILDING
 

   BUILD, BUT . . .
 

   Acknowledgments
 

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