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Impacts of Residential Demolition and the Sustainable Reuse of Vacant Lots (Cleveland, Ohio)
Citation:
Mebane, S. Impacts of Residential Demolition and the Sustainable Reuse of Vacant Lots (Cleveland, Ohio). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/F-12/510, 2012.
Impact/Purpose:
The research expands our knowledge of how demolition affects vacant lots and their utility for reuse. In future work, researchers will use principles of adaptive management to guide a green-infrastructure retrofit of a neighborhood block in the Slavic Village Development Corporation area in Cleveland, Ohio. Implementing green infrastructure, among other applications, may foster more sustainable stormwater management and extend quality ecosystem services to areas historically lacking these attributes.
Description:
The summarized research takes a comprehensive look at the nature of urban soils by measuring how fast water moves into the soil, taking deep soil cores, and using soil taxonomy and the cores to understand how water moves through various depths. The research expands our knowledge of how demolition affects vacant lots and their utility for reuse.