The New Ecology of Vacancy: Rethinking Land Use in Shrinking Cities

Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1154-1172

  Burkholder, Sean ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Off lining; Shrinking cities; Sustainable urban planning; Urban ecology; Urban landscape; Vacancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864349064     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su4061154     Document Type: Article

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