Doesn't cultural become historical and vise versa? Become intertwined in public perception? But, we've always done it/never done it, that way.
To be fair, it's not just us old farts, most people, even kids, are skeptical of change... makes people uncomfortable.
Yes, the plant that gets built and the surrounding infrastructure to support it, is hard to change. One, because of the cost, and two, the longer it's there the more people don't want to see anything changed.
Here, because we have room, those places were usually on the outskirts of urban areas. Then it would be cheaper to abandon, and something new built further out in the sticks. The old place would either become a bedroom community for workers commuting to the new business site or back toward the city, or in some cases become a ghost town.
They say money talks, but the reality is money is a spoiled brat that will buy enough lawyers and politicians to crush anyone in the way. Especially after the supreme court decided in Kelo vs the City of New London, the politicians can take your land and hand it over to private developers. Most fucked up, anti-American, unconstitutional, oppressive development in out history.
