From Growing Corn To A Growing Community

This slideshow from Slate shows how a cornfield in Pennsylvania developed into a new residential community.

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April 19, 2007, 2:00 PM PDT

"The story of this development is one that is unfolding, in slightly different forms, all across the country. Every year, the American home-building industry produces between 1 million and 2 million new homes. Four out of five of them are single-family houses, and most form brand-new neighborhoods-in some cases, new towns."

"Exurban growth is driven not so much by home buyers' desire for open space as by the movement of jobs to the periphery of metropolitan areas and by prohibitively high property values in traditional suburbs."

FULL STORY: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 in Slate

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