greyfield
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Compound of grey + field, referencing the colour of concrete.
Noun[edit]
greyfield (countable and uncountable, plural greyfields)
- (urban studies) An area of commercial or industrial development which has become underused or abandoned.
- 2022 July 28, Peter Newman, Giles Thomson, Peter Newton, Stephen Glackin, “Greening the greyfields: how to renew our suburbs for more liveable, net-zero cities”, in The Conversation[1], archived from the original on 2023-06-28:
- A new kind of urban regeneration is needed at the scale of precincts, rather than lot by lot, to transform the greyfields into more liveable and sustainable suburbs.
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Further reading[edit]
- greyfield land on Wikipedia.Wikipedia