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WPS-1. Pittsburgh's River Corridors, 1850-1950 by Jennifer Bannister, Carnegie Mellon University, May 1997.

WPS-2. Microscopic Traffic Simulator-Independent Study by Carla R. Santoro, Carnegie Mellon University, May 1997.

WPS-3. Computer Tools to Facilitate Brownfield Development by Adjo Amekudzi, Paul Fishbeck, James Garrett, Haris Koutsopoilos, Sue McNeil, and Mitchell Small, Carnegie Mellon University, June 1997.

WPS-4. Brownfields-Annotated Bibliography by Juel S. Gibbons and Nii O. Attoh-Okine, Florida International University, June 1997.

WPS-5. Addressing Transportation Issues in Brownfields Development by Adjo Amekudzi, Haris Koutsopoulos, Sue McNeil, and Jianyu Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, July 1997.

WPS-6. Traffic Analysis of Clustered Brownfield Developments by Adjo Amekudzi, Carnegie Mellon University, August 1997.

WPS-7. LCCA and Brownfields: The Development of Framework for the Application of Life Cycle Cost Analysis to Evaluation of Brownfield Sites by Deborah A. Lange, Carnegie Mellon University, August 1997.

WPS-8. Sequestration of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants by Geosorbants by Richard G. Luthy of Carnegie Mellon University, George R. Aiken of the U.S. Geologic Survey, Mark L. Brusseau of the University of Arizona, Scott D. Cunningham of DuPont, Phillip M. Gschwend of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joseph J. Pignatello of the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station, Martin Reinhard of Stanford University, Sam Traina of the Ohio State University, Walter J. Weber of the University of Michigan and John C. Westall of Oregon State University, August 1997.

WPS-9. Impact on Traffic Resulting From a Brownfield Development Using a Microscopic Traffic Simulator (MITSIM) by Carla Santoro, Carnegie Mellon University, August 1997.

WPS-10. A method for Probability Assessment of Uncertain Decision Variables by Neil Stiber, Paul Fischbeck and Mitchell Small, Carnegie Mellon, September 1998.

The Use of Belief Functions as a Decision Analytic Tool in the Managment of Brownfields Infrastructure Redevelopment,  Juel S. Gibbons, Nii Attoh-Okine of Florida International University, Report to the Brownfields Center, Florida International Univeristy, February 1998.

The Rise and Fall of the South Side Works and Subsequent Redevelopment of the South Side, Kellie Fenton, Social History Research Seminar Paper, Carnegie Mellon University, November 1998.

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Articles and Reports (in alphabetical order)

Ample Opportunity: A community Dialogue, Nine Mile Run Greenway Project, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie mellon, September 1998.

A Second Chance:  Brownfields Redevelopment in Pittsburgh, Capstone Seminar in Economic development and Planning Brownfields Revitalization on Pittsburgh, Graduate school of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, April 1998.

Attoh-Okine, Nii, "Potential Application of Influence Diagrams as Risk Assessment Tool in Bronwfields Sites," Superfund Risk Assessment in Soil Contamination Studies: Third Volkume, ASTM STP 1338, K.B. Jpddomptt., Ed. American Society for Testing Materials, 1998.

Amekudzi, Adjo and N.O Attoh-Okine, "Conceptual Frameworks for Understanding Brownfields Redevelopment Issues," To appear Journal of Infrastructure, 1997.

Amekudzi, Adjo, N.O Attoh-Okine, and Shonali Laha, "Brownfields Redevelopment Issues at the Federal, State and Local Levels, " Journal of Environmental Systems, Vol. 25, No.2, April 1997.

Amekudzi, Adjo and N.O Attoh-Okine, "Developing Brownfields Ranking Models Using Decision Analytic Methods," A Report by Florida International University, Miami, FL, August, 1996.

Amekudzi, Adjo, Paul Fischbeck, James Garrett, Haris Koutsopoulos, Sue McNeil, Mitchell Small, "Computer Tools to Facilitate Brownfield Devleopment", Public Works Policy & Management, January, 1998.

Bannister, Jennifer and Joel Tarr "An Historical Analysis of Transportation in the Mon Valley".

Erzi, Ipek, Deborah Lange, Barbara Gengler and Sue McNeil, "User Manual: Economic Analysis Calculator," National Institute for Environmental Renewal,  September, 1999.

Fischbeck, P. S. & R. Gdovic, (1996) "Pittsburgh RISES: An Interactive GIS for Brownfield Development." Proceedings of the First INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, June, Washington, DC.

Gibbons, Juel S., Nii Attoh-Okine and Shonali Laha, "Brownfields redevelopment issues revisted," Internatioanl Journal of Environment and Pollution, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1998.

Godsen, Scott and Sue McNeil, "Technology Review: Natural Systems as Physical Infrastructure," submitted to the Journal of Infrastructure Systems, September 1999.

McNeil, Sue and Deborah Lange, "Engineering Urban Brownfield Development: Examples from Pittsburgh" in Manufactured Sites: Integrating Planning and Design in the Remediation, Reclamation and Reuse of the Post-Industrial Landscape, editor Niall Kirkwood, Island Press, to appear in 1999.

Lange, Deborah, S. McNeil, J. Pletnicka, J. Horakova, "Brownfield Prevention: A Case Study in Ostrava, Czech Republic", Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium and Exhibition on Environmental Contamination in Central and Eastern Europe, Warsaw, Poland, September 1998.

Lange, D.A., S. McNeil, J. Horakova, J. Pletnicka, "Bringing Together Stakeholders and Experts for Brownfield Prevention," International Intermediate Conference on the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage of Mining and Metallurgy: Economic Structure in Change, Industrial Heritage in Danger, Sponsored by: The University of Miskolc, Hungary, September 22-28, 1999.   (click to view paper)

Lange, Deborah and Catherine Rakestraw, "Brownfields and the S-Word," ISRC ’99 – Official Publication of the Industrial Sites Recycling Conference, Sponsored by the Engineer’s Society of Western Pennsylvania, September 1999.

McNeil, Sue and Deborah Lange, Ipek Erzi, Catherine Rakestraw, "Evaluating Urban Brownfield Development and Transportation Alternatives Using Sustainabilty Indicators, submitted to Transportation Research Board, to be published in 1999.

McNeil, Sue and Deborah Lange, "Engineering Urban Brownfield Development," Manufactured Sites: Integrated Planning and Design in the Remediation, Reclamation and Reuse of the Post- Industrial Landscape, editor Niall Kirkwood, Island Press, to appear in 1999.

Stiber, Neil, Mitchell J. Small and Paul S. Fischbeck, "The Relationship Between Historical Industrial Site Use and Environmental Contamination," Submitted to the Journal of Air and Waste Management Association, June, 1996.

Zhang, Jianyu, "Inferred Concerns and Priorities of Stakeholders in Brownfields Decision Making," PhD Qualifier Paper, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998.

Zhang, Jianyu , Paul Fischbeck and Mitchell Small, "Concerns and Priorities of Shareholders in Brownfield Decision Making" accepted for publication in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. To appear in 1999.

Tarr, Joel and Jeffrey Stine, "An Intersection of Histories" Technology and Culture, 39, October, 1998, 601-640.

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Scott Godsen, "Modeling Wetland Performance Including Environmental Factors," MS, May, 1999.

Adjo Amekudzi, "Traffic Impact Analysis of Clustered Brownfields," MS September, 1997.

WenBin Wei, "Review and Implementation of Integrated Transportation and Land Use Models," August 1996.

JP Barton, "Case Study: Redevelopment of a Former Army Ammunition Plant Located in the Hayes Community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania," May 1996.

Nia Rodgers, "Hazelwood Case Study," Summer 1999.

Adrienne Messenger, "Financing Brownfield Development," Seniors Honors Project, 1998 - 1999.  (click to view)

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Presentations

1996

"Brownfield Development: The Implications for Urban Infrastructure", University of Puerto Rico, April, 1996, Sue McNeil.

"Pittsburgh RISES: GIS and the Local Economy", 4th Annual Pennsylvania Geographic Information Systems Conference, Harrisburg, PA, May 1996, Fischbeck, P. S. & R. Gdovic.

"Promoting Industrial Site Redevelopment using the Internet for Information and Regulatory Review", Invited presentation to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Harrisburg, PA, 20 May 1996, Fischbeck, P. S., J. Garrett, N Stiber, and D. Stasiak.

"Pittsburgh RISES: An Interactive GIS for Brownfield Development." Presentation and Demonstration  INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, June, 1996, Washington, DC, Fischbeck, P. S. & R. Gdovic.

"Pittsburgh RISES," Project Showcase at the Urban and Regional Information System Association Conference in Salt Lake City - August 1996, R. Gdovic.

"The University's Role in Brownfield Development, Using Pittsburgh as a Case Study,"  Brownfields 96, EPA, Pittsburgh, September, 1996, Fischbeck, P. S.

"Brownfields Development: The Implications for Urban Infrastructure," Presentation to Polish/Estonian Pollution Prevention Study Tour, August, 1996.

"In Search of Brownfields" Site Discovery Using RISES,"  Brownfields 96, EPA, Pittsburgh, September, 1996, Fischbeck, P. S.

Panel Discussion, American Public Management Association, Pittsburgh, November, 1996, S. McNeil.

"Brownfields," Presentation to Society of Women Engineers, Region G Conference, Pittsburgh, November, 1996, S. McNeil, A. Messenger, C. Santoro, J. Bannister.

1997

Research Team, "Brownfield Development: The Implications for Urban Infrastructure," NSF Grantees Meeting, July/August, 1997

Fischbeck, Paul, "If GIS is the Answer, What is the Question?" Brownfields 97, Kansas City, October, 1997.

1998

McNeil, Sue, "Industrial Site Reuse" Duquesne University, January, 1998

Lange, Deborah, ASCE Engineers Week Meeting, February, 1998. 

McNeil, Sue, "Engineering Brownfield Development: Examples form Pittsburgh," Manufactured Sites, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, April 1998.

Lange, Deborah and Sue McNeil, "Lower Vitkovice: Are There Answers?" Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, October 8, 1998.

Lange, Deborah, Brownfield Prevention: A Case Study in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Fourth International Symposium and Exhibition on Environmental Contamination in Central and Eastern Europe, Warsaw, Poland, September 1998.

McNeil, Sue, "Brownfield Development: Lessons from Pittsburgh", Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia, October, 1998.

Fishbeck, Paul, An Interactive, Integrated GIS for Brownfields Development, First International Conference on new Information Technoligies for Decision Making in Civil Engineering, Montreal, Canada, October 1998.

Keller, Vagel, "Anatomy of a Brownfield: A Retrospective Look at the Pittsburgh Technology Center's Infrastructure." November, 1998.

1999

McNeil, Sue, "What are Brownfields," Susquenhanna County, Department of Economic Development, July, 1999.

Lange, D.A., S. McNeil, J. Horakova, J. Pletnicka, "Bringing Together Stakeholders and Experts for Brownfield Prevention," International Intermediate Conference on the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage of Mining and Metallurgy: Economic Structure in Change, Industrial Heritage in Danger, Sponsored by: The University of Miskolc, Hungary, September 22-28, 1999.   (click to view paper)

Lange, Deborah and Catherine Rakestraw, "Capturing Brownfield Success: A National Glimpse," Industrial Sites Recycling Conference ‘99, Sponsored by the Engineer’s Society of Western Pennsylvania, September 1999. (click to view presentation)

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