Replay: The Power of Greenfield Economics

Greenfield economics — building up new territory as opposed to redeveloping old places — is explored in this story, along with the trend of population migrations from cities to suburbs. The benefits related to starting developments in new places are numerous; primarily, new developments don’t involve old and sometimes tumultuous histories.  However, the new eventually becomes the old, which planners must consider. Read the blog entry.

SOURCE: Urbanophile, Passionate About Cities blog, 4/15/11