Posts tagged Arlington
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Breakfast links: Stand up and be counting
Entitled Driver Syndrome alive and well; Count bikes and peds Thursday and Saturday; Safeway Avenue, NW; Maryland may actually start being smart; Development updates; Metro morsels. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Skyscrapers and Oklahomans
And the best employer to commute to is…; Height limit debate of the day; Just under the wire; Senators preemptively reject reform; Let’s rotate fiscal conservatives through the Transportation Committee to educate them; And…. Keep reading…
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Orangington?
Arlington: The Rap is a hilarious spoof that lovingly pokes fun at Washington’s even-more yuppie-filled western extension. The rap isn’t really about Arlington, though; it’s about that specific portion of Arlington lying along Metro’s Orange line that over the past generation has morphed from sleepy suburb to central city destination. The… Keep reading…
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Trail signs should work like street signs
Not long ago, my sister from Los Angeles was visiting me in Arlington, and wanted walking directions to a coffee shop. She didn’t mind taking a longer walk, so I recommended one about 2.5 miles away that she would enjoy. The shortest and most pleasant way to walk there included sections of bike trails. I found that giving her directions to be really difficult. Everything had to… Keep reading…
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Morning links: Back and greater than ever
I’m back; “Overgrown office park” to real city; More sidewalks coming, especially in River East; I-270 corridor residents want transit; Mixed-income areas boost civic participation; Arlington gets greener, transit opponents claim to be; Across the nation; And…. Keep reading…
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Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey: The Future
The foresight of Arlington’s leaders in the 1960s, and the county’s ongoing commitment to maintaining the vision since, has turned it into a nationwide model for Smart Growth. What’s next for the little county that could? Will people a generation hence look back at the decisions today’s leaders make with the same pride that we feel toward the planners who… Keep reading…
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Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey: Affordability
Arlington has been so successful that many people want to live there. But that very success means many people can’t afford to live in most of Arlington. How can the county bring the economic benefits, retail diversity, and walkability to some of its less popular neighborhoods while ensuring that people of all income levels can continue to live in Arlington? Keep reading…
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Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey: Neighborhoods
Arlington has a remarkable diversity of neighborhoods. Clarendon is one of the most successful, lively, mixed-use parts of the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor. Shirlington is demonstrating that you can have Smart Growth even without Metrorail. And in much of the county, even just a short distance from Metro stations, are many quiet single-family neighborhoods. Keep reading…
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Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey: What is Smart Growth?
What makes Arlington’s growth “Smart Growth”? What are the key elements that make it so successful? How can neighboring Fairfax County learn from Arlington’s success as they encounter many of the same challenges Arlington faced a decade ago? Keep reading…
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Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey: Development
Arlington had succeeded in placing Metro stations where it wanted them, and getting a lot of them. But the hard work was just beginning. How should the county plan for development around the stations? How much density should there be, and how far from the station? Arlington worked through these issues in the Arlington Way. Keep reading…