They were planning some sort of real estate development on the edge of the city-probably on that few acres of pasture out back of the Waterhouse residence. They would put up town-houses around the edges, make the center into a square, and along the square Sterling would put up shops. Rich people would move in, and the Waterhouses and their confederates would control a patch of land that would probably generate more rent than any thousand square miles of Ireland-basically, they would become farmers of rich people.
( Neal Stephenson )
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