Brownfield Redevelopment: Yucheng Zhang’s Explainer Video

Student

Yucheng Zhang (M.R.P. '24)

Class

CRP 3850/5850 Special Topics in Planning: Economic Development: Goals, Strategies, and Tools

Instructors

Thomas Knipe

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

This semester, each of the students enrolled in the economic development planning course produced an “explainer” video on a specific economic development tool. In this explainer video, Cornell Masters in Regional Planning student Yucheng Zhang describes the important economic development topic of Brownfield Redevelopment. Brownfields 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” (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency).