How did Arlington get to be the way it is? Is it its proximity to Washington, DC? The Pentagon? The Metro? Arlington created a documentary, Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey, to explore this question and the history of Arlington’s evolution into a national model for Smart Growth. I’ve cut up the documentary into sections, so we can watch and discuss a little at a time.

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Tagged: arlington, development, smart growth, video, virginia

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.