Sustainable development: Land recycling/ Changyu Jung
Land recycling is the reuse of land assets
that was abandoned, empty, or unused. Making new use of contaminated land or
reinvest in underprivileged areas are also included in land recycling. The
typical way of land recycling is recycling abandoned or unused buildings. This
reuse of buildings reduces the cost of demolition and reduces the generation of
building pollutants. In this respect, land recycling shows sustainability. It
reduces excessive land use because there is no need to build many new
facilities by utilizing existing infrastructure.
It is interesting that land recycling has a
side effect. Land recycling can cause gentrification. Because most abandoned
buildings exist in slums and poor areas, as existing companies invest in such
buildings, rich people enter the buildings and drive out existing residents.
Land recycling is an important way to make sustainable development, but it has
great side effects.
How can we reduce side effects such as
gentrification when recycling land?
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