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many quarters to place as much as possible of this
upon reclaimed and vacant land, or 'brown-field'
sites, in preference to taking green-field sites. In
reality, this latter has been happening to a
significant degree in recent years. In 1992, half of
all new urban development was on land previously
used for urban purposes (i.e. recycled land), and a
further 8 per cent was on land in urban localities
that had not previously been developed (DoETR
1997b). The scope for major increases in this
proportion may be limited by the locational
mismatch between the concentrations of derelict/
vacant land in the Midlands and north of England
and the greater demand for new housing in the
south, but it is clear that derelict and vacant land is
going to be central to this debate.
The Environment Agency:
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agency.gov.uk/home.html)
The European Commission DG XI:
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www.europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg11/dg11home.html)
REFERENCES
Adams, C.D., Baum, A.E. and MacGregor, B.D. (1988) The
availability of land for inner city redevelopment: a case
study of Manchester.
Urban Studies
25, 62-76.
Barr, J. (1969)
Derelict Britain.
Harmondsworth: Penguin
Books.
Beaver, S.H. (1946)
Report on Derelict Land in the Black
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London: Ministry of Town and Country
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Burrows, J. (1978) Vacant land—a continuing crisis.
The
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Chaix, R. (1989) Friches industrielles et réaffectations en
Île-de-France, Evolution 1985-1988.
Hommes et Terres
du Nord
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Chisholm, M. and Kivell, P.T. (1987)
Inner City Wasteland.
London: Institute of Economic Affairs.
Christie, S. and Teeuw, R. (1996) European perspectives
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European Environment
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Civic Trust (1977)
Urban Wasteland—A Report on Land
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Coleman, A. (1982) Dead space in the dying inner city.
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Couch, C. (1989) Vacant and derelict land in France.
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Dechosel, L. (1992) Land reclamation in France and
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DoE (1989)
A Review of Derelict Land Policy.
London:
HMSO.
DoE (1992)
The National Survey of Vacant Land in Urban
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London: HMSO.
DoE (1995)
Survey of Derelict Land in England 1993,
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DoETR (1997a)
Contaminated Land Review Completed.
Press Release No. 539, 22 December.
DoETR (1997b)
Land Use Change in England No. 12.
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GUIDE TO FURTHER READING
A comprehensive overview of the early years of
derelict land study appears in K.Wallwork's
Derelict
Land
(1974, Newton Abbott: David & Charles).
E.M. Bridges,
Surveying Derelict Land
(1987, Oxford:
Clarendon Press), reviewed an interdisciplinary
methodology for the assessment of derelict and
contaminated land, and
Inner City Waste Land
by M.
Chisholm and P.T.Kivell (1987, London: Institute
of Economic Affairs) assessed failures in land
development in a way that has renewed relevance
for the present debate about land for new housing.
The Department of the Environment
produced surveys of derelict land in 1974, 1982,
1988 and most recently in 1993, and its report,
Assessment of the Effectiveness of Derelict Land Grant
(1994, London: HMSO), gives useful details of
land reclamation, including a number of case
studies. Derelict land in a wider European context
was dealt with by a collection of papers in French,
mainly by geographers, entitled
La Problematique
des friches industrielles
(1994, Strasbourg: Centre
European du Developpement Regional).
Up-to-date information, including
government press releases, can be found on the
World Wide Web. Useful sites are:
The Department of the Environment:
(http://
www.detr.gov.uk/detrhome.htm)
