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  • August 2012 Issue
  • Story by Richard Lehnert
  • Urban orchards

    An effort is underway to rebuild cities, complete with tree fruit.

    [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] For more than half a century, the great industrial cities of the northeastern United States have been decaying. From what used to be dynamic urban centers, people and industries have moved out, sprawling over adjacent farmland with homes, factories, roads, and shopping centers. They leave behind abandoned houses and factories, abandoned land appropriately called brownfields. People are left behind, too, people too poor and unskilled to move, left trying to pay for city infrastructure too expensive […]

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