[PEN-L:3924] Re: brownfields and urban sprawl

1996-04-23 Thread J. J. Persky
> >What was the influence of race on redevelopment that McGrath found? > >Nancy Breen >NIH > -- McGrath's thesis suggests that independent of level of contamination, black industrial sites in Chicago were considerably less likely to be redeveloped than either white or Hispanic. This e

[PEN-L:3916] Re: brownfields and urban sprawl

1996-04-23 Thread J. J. Persky
>On the question of lowering environmental standards: Dan McGrath here at UIC has just finished a thesis exploring the relation of industrial land redevelopment and contamination in Chicago. His findings suggest that developers discount land at about the current clean-up costs. From this one ca

[PEN-L:3858] Re: subsidies for sprawl

1996-04-19 Thread J. J. Persky
>At 2:33 PM 4/18/96, Eban Goodstein wrote: > >>Anybody out there familiar with a literature on: >> >>(1) the degree to which suburban development is subsidized? >>(2) estimates of the externality costs of sprawl? >> >>References would be greatly appreciated. > > >Please post 'em to the list; this