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Suburban Sprawl and Self-Driving Cars May Reverse Land Sparing Efforts

Thanks to decoupling, the low-density metro areas will probably become even bigger and even less dense. As farmland on the periphery of metro areas is retired from agriculture, much of it will be converted into cheap housing, low-rent office parks and inexpensive production facilities.

http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/michael-lind/the-green-urbanization-myth

I defined this trend as "Agraria", the successor to Suburbia, in a thread here:

http://you-read-it-here-first.com/viewtopic.php?t=3227&highlight=agraria&sid=6b64fac7301879206884e179bc68284e

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