Abstract
Urban policymakers over the past two decades have engineered a curious and potentially dangerous intersection of late 20th Century policies designed to foster the rebirth of America's distressed urban regions. First, we find widespread enthusiasm about the potential for reusing brownfields 1 (typically contaminated urban sites), which has stimulated an impressive range of initiatives at all levels of government. 2 Second, after more than a decade of sitting on the sidelines and watching the states battle over the ideal range of incentives that will most effectively drive inner-city redevelopment, the federal government finally entered the fray in the 1990s with the designation of (and not insubstantial funding for) Empowerment Zones (EZs) and Enterprise Communities (ECs). ...
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1998
Recommended Citation
Michael Allan Wolf, Dangerous Crossing: State Brownfields Recycling and Federal Enterprise Zoning, 9 Fordham Envtl. L.J. 495 (1998).
