Special Topics in Planning: Economic Development: Goals, Strategies and Tools Yucheng Zhang's Explainer Video

Each fall semester, Cornell Visiting Lecturer, Tom Knipe teaches a Special Topics Course in Economic Development Planning. Tom is an alumnus of the Cornell Masters in Regional Planning Program, from which he graduated in 2011. Tom currently serves as the Director of Economic Development for the City of Ithaca, New York.

This semester, each of the students enrolled in Tom's Economic Development Planning Course, produced an 'explainer' video on a specific economic development tool.

In this explainer video on Brownfield Redevelopment, Cornell Masters in Regional Planning Student Yucheng Zhang describes the important economic development topic of Brownfield Redevelopment. Brownfield's are sites that could be redeveloped but whose potential redevelopment or use is complicated "by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant" (US Environmental Protection Agency). 

Source: https://19january2021snapshot.epa.gov/brownfields/overview-epas-brownfields-program_.html

Overview of Browndields concept: https://www.epa.gov/brownfields