Cotton is a fiber (from the cotton plant). Flannel is a finish or weave. Hence you can have flannel wool as well as cotton flannel - i.e wool made with flannel finish or cotton made with flannel finish. Hope this helops.
A very memorable song from Joni Mitchell that featured the line They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.. This best described places I remember growing up in Bloomington, MN in my teens where numerous places were torn down, most notably a restaurant I frequented that was replaced with a Park and Ride lot.
Born To Run. (originally by Bruce Springsteen) In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream. At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines. Sprung from cages out on highway 9, Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin' out over the line. Oh-oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back.