Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A site, to be used for housing or commerce, that has been previously used for industry and may be contaminated or need extensive clearing
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 3735
Land area (2000): 6.320941 sq. miles (16.371161 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.020289 sq. miles (0.052547 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.341230 sq. miles (16.423708 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10720
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.179826 N, 102.270926 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79316
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Brownfield
Wikipedia
Brownfield development is a term commonly used in the IT industry to describe problem spaces needing the development and deployment of new software systems in the immediate presence of existing (legacy) software applications/systems. This implies that any new software architecture must take into account and coexist with live software already in situ. In contemporary civil engineering, Brownfield land means places where new buildings may need to be designed and erected considering the other structures and services already in place.
Brownfield development adds a number of improvements to conventional software engineering practices. These traditionally assume a "clean sheet of paper" or " greenfield land" target environment throughout the design and implementation phases of software development. Brownfield extends such traditions by insisting that the context (local landscape) of the system being created be factored into any development exercise. This requires a detailed knowledge of the systems, services and data in the immediate vicinity of the solution under construction.
Brownfield is a term used in urban planning to describe land previously used for industrial purposes or some commercial uses.
Brownfield or Brown Field may also refer to:
Usage examples of "brownfield".
The Labor Day run to the Brownfield campsite 20 miles north of Coronation starts in 1973.
Two of her cases lived in the state, one in a Dallas suburb and the other in the small town of Brownfield, in the far west.
The thought struck him that young Brownfield probably resembled nothing so much as he did a slightly boiled marmoset.
He put his jacket on, picked up his briefcase, and took the hand Brownfield extended.
The next morning, after her brownfields testimony, Whitman improvised her final, creative step, a sort of icing on this confection.