Sunday, October 23, 2011

A Green Infrastructure Model for Right Sizing America's Shrinking Cities


I found this article relating to greening communities and its benefits. check it out if your interested. i included the purpose statement

Purpose: We define strategies shrinking cities can use to convert vacant properties to valuable green infrastructure to revitalize urban environments, empower community residents, and stabilize dysfunctional real estate markets. To do this we examine shrinking cities and their vacant property challenges; identify the benefits of urban greening; explore the policies, obstacles, and promise of a green infrastructure initiative; and discuss vacant property reclamation programs and policies that would form the nucleus of a model green infrastructure right-sizing initiative designed to stabilize the communities with the greatest level of abandonment.




http://www.esf.edu/cue/documents/Greeningtherustbelt.pdf

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