Public open spaces provide many benefits to individuals and society. Many of the services they provide; such as recreation, enjoyment of nature, and improving water quality; are non-exclusive and nonrival in consumption. The "public good" nature of open space services inhibits the formation of a market for open space areas....
The thesis presented here is a quantitative study of vacant
urban land in Corvallis, Oregon. In order to present this study the
writer first studied the available literature and found that little had
been published dealing with causal factors of vacant urban land.
Rather, it was found that several writers...
One of the most explosive social forces of modern-day society
is the phenomenon of urban intrusion into predominantly rural areas.
The recentness of this "explosion" has not yet allowed for a crystallization
of conceptual clearity as to just where this sector or
zone, which has come to be known as...