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Niall Kirkwood

Niall G. Kirkwood FASLA is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology and Director for the Center for Technology and Environment inat the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University He is the author of Manufactured Sites: Rethinking the Post-Industrial Landscape.

Principles of Brownfield Regeneration

Principles of Brownfield Regeneration

Cleanup, Design, and Reuse of Derelict Land

The US. EPA defines brownfields as "idle real property, the development or improvement of which is impaired by real or perceived contamination." The authors of Principles of Brownfield Regeneration argue that, compared to "greenfields"-farmland, forest, or pasturelands that have never been developed-brownfields offer a more sustainable land development choice.