And indeed, the purposeful reclamation of urban and suburban lands is Not long ago, any visions of an agrarian return would have been chalked up to nostalgia: today, such conjurings don’t seem so far-fetched. Some innovative rethinking is going to have to happen around overbuilt subdivisions, master planned communities and urban high rises. With scores of homes being abandoned because of the current mortgage debacle, To create more room for industry, technology and people, without really paying attention to what’s being lost in the process. That sounds crazy, but it really shouldn’t come as much of a surprise : for decades, we’ve systematically razed nearly every patch of land we’ve been able to in an effort ![]() We are running out of farmland and some people, like finance guru James Cramer in his recent column for New York magazine urging readers to invest in farm supply equipment,Īre suggesting - only a little facetiously - that housing developments may need to be razed to clear the way for more farmland. In the United States can no longer keep pace with the staggering global demand for the raw material of corn syrup and ethanol and so, seemingly out of nowhere, there’s a demand for more farmland.īut it’s true. O.K., the planet is officially out of (or back in?) alignment: American farmers are making money hand over fist while the hedge fund guys are wishing they’d put a little more cash under the mattress.
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