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 contaminated vacant land. The first section highlights some significant barriers to the reuse of vacant land. The second section explains the basics of environmental laws affecting contaminated land. The third section describes an approach to preliminary research that must be done before starting the process of reusing contaminated or potentially contaminated land.
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Philadelphia (9)
- Reclaiming Vacant Lots
- Vacant Land in Philadelphia
- An Asset Management Approach to Vacant Land
- From Vacant Land to Open Space
- Vacant Land Management in Philadelphia Neighborhoods
- Neighborhood Transformations
- Vacant Property Prescriptions
- Making Philadelphia a 'Green Country Towne'
- From Falls to Fairmount
Vacant Land (17)
- Reclaiming Vacant Lots
- Vacant Land in Philadelphia
- Vacant Land in Cities: an Urban Resource
- Dirt Into Dollars
- Transforming America's Cities
- Addressing the Vacant and Abandoned Property Problem
- An Asset Management Approach to Vacant Land
- From Vacant Land to Open Space
- Vacant Land Management in Philadelphia Neighborhoods
- NWF Seeks to Turn Urban Brownfields into Green Spaces
- Reported Causes of Change in City Supply of Vacant Land
- City Willing to Sell Vacant Lots for One Dollar
- Vacant Land and Environmental Contamination in Philadelphia
- Vacant Property Prescriptions
- Parking it in the Big Apple
- Urban Vacant Land
- Housing Policy Research Program