Using simple landscape metrics along with typical spatial data and stakeholder knowledge on a brownfield near Potsdam, Germany, this transfer is implemented for an existing site-specific indicator set to evaluate the sustainability of brownfield redevelopment options in a case study.
Helen Jefferies, of Wisley Action Group, said its classification as a brownfield site was misleading, because only about 24% was previously built on.
While research has demonstrated that brownfield sites and vacant lots in inner-city areas have a cooling effect on the micro climate, less is known about how this effect changes during the redevelopment of a brownfield.
We want new businesses and shops with active frontages rather than a brownfield site.
"In communities where the real estate market isn't working that well, you end up with a brownfield," said Jody Kass, executive director of New Partners for Community Revitalization, a brownfield advocacy group.
Their preferred location is a disused air base, five miles outside the city, which is classified as a brownfield site.
When you are working on a brownfield site, it is a lot harder to demonstrate what you've actually accomplished.
At worst it feels like a brownfield in need of environmental mitigation.
It is Mrs Brown's boys on a brownfield site singing Brown Eyed Girl.
Interdisciplinary, integrated study of groundwater, radionuclides, toxics, and human health in the context of a semester-long, detailed exploration of a brownfield, a contaminated aquifer, and its impact on a local community using the award-winning Brownfield Action simulation.
It may be considered as a brownfield method such that the potential locations are selected from any existing locations.
