Urban vacancy and land use legacies: A frontier for urban ecological research, design, and planning

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 125, Issue , 2014, Pages 245-253

  Nassauer, Joan Iverson ^a   Raskin, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminant; Ecosystem services; Environmental justice; Public health; Social capital; Urban design

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; IMPURITIES; LAND USE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SERVICE INDUSTRY; URBAN PLANNING; WATER QUALITY; ZONING;

ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; TRANS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES; URBAN DESIGN;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABANDONED LAND; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; LAND USE CHANGE; LEGAL SYSTEM; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CAPITAL; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84899074695     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.10.008     Document Type: Article

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