Selling tax-reverted land: Lessons from Cleveland and Detroit

Journal of the American Planning Association

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 167-180

  Dewar, Margaret ^a,b  

^a Department of Architecture and Urban Planning

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; LAND USE PLANNING;

CLEVELAND [OHIO]; DETROIT; MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745381932     PISSN: 01944363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01944360608976737     Document Type: Article

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