Greening America’s Smaller Legacy Cities

The Greening America’s Smaller Legacy Cities from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a policy-focused report on how local governments in small and midsize older industrial cities can adopt and implement comprehensive sustainability initiatives. Authored by Joseph Schilling, Catherine Tumber, and Gabi Velasco, they highlight how vacant lots, and subsequently land banks, can be incredibly strategic partners in accomplishing sustainable goals. Targeting industrial cities, the reports’ objectives to create sustainable cities through policy provides several examples of land banks and vacant lots moving the needle.