Vacant Land in Cities: an Urban Resource
A recent survey on vacant land and abandoned structures in seventy cities.
Pagano, Michael A. and Ann O’M Nowman. Brookings Institution Survey Series, Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy. December 2000.
A recent survey on vacant land and abandoned structures in seventy cities found that 15% of a city’s land was vacant; cities in the South tended to have the most vacant land while cities in the Northeast the least; cities in the Sunbelt reported high levels of vacant land; cities with low proportions of vacant land tended to have high numbers of abandoned structures.