City Parks Association

Resources: Policy

The State Role in Urban Land Redevelopment

While city governments bear a large burden of addressing vacant and abandoned land and structures, state governments play an important role as well. This review summarizes the extent of state legis...

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Vacant Land Management in Philadelphia Neighborhoods

Cost Benefit Analysis

This is the first of several reports published from the Vacant Land Management Study conducted in the late 1990s in Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. The goal of the study was...

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Vacant Land and Environmental Contamination in Philadelphia

A GUIDE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS

Prepared by the Pennsylvania Environmental Council

The purpose of this handbook is to provide community-based organizations with the knowledge to initiate the process of reusing environmentally cont...

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Urban Vacant Land

ISSUES AND RECOMMENDATIONS

This study consists of two sections. The first section, “Toward a New Way of Thinking About Urban Vacant Land,” surveys the programs and policies of governments, non-profit agencies, and neighborho...

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An Asset Management Approach to Vacant Land

A Pilot Program for Eastern North Philadelphia

This is the third of several reports published from the Vacant Land Management Study conducted in the late 1990s in Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. This report presents a pl...

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Addressing the Vacant and Abandoned Property Problem

Discusses the nature of vacant and abandoned property and the city efforts to address it. Barrier to the revitalization of central cities; survey of the populous central cities in the United States...

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Transforming America's Cities

City governments own or regulate vacant land and abandoned structures. In this article, the authors summarize new vacant-land survey data, examine the conditions and causes of vacant land, analyze ...

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