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New Life For Greyfields And Brownfields

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Jayashree Narayana
30 July 2002 - 10:00am

Don't give up on greyfields and brownfields. Smart growth offers redevelopment prospects.

"Americans are learning that sprawl kills. Sprawl contributes to high rates of many serious illnesses and premature deaths, related especially to physical inactivity and obesity. Sprawl kills downtowns and rural towns. Sprawl kills farmland and places with environmental importance.""Greyfields and brownfields are like trash left in the wake of fast-moving sprawl. Yet both are becoming major new opportunities for redevelopment because of population growth and increasing demand for housing closer in, nearer to what cities have to offer."

Full Story: Taming the asphalt jungle
Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram, July 28, 2002
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Planners, architects, artists, and other community members can make the exploratory walk a key tool in re-making places, stemming from the emotions and atmospheres perceived by people who live there or visit them, and plan outward from the experiential, toward trajectories, shapes, and physical structures.
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