Developers in Northern Virginia built out large suburbs of mixed high, medium and low density housing: suburbs with broad streets and trendy, new shopping centres and malls. However they found young educated professionals were choosing the old city downtowns like Alexandria and Arlington over their new developments. This was a wealthy market that the developers did not like missing out on. A new development in Northern Virginia is Lansdowne. It contains the normal spiralling suburb but with sections that have artificially constructed town centres. (more)
cam : A bit junk for code-y, but Gary Sauer-Thompson contends that republicanism cannot be defined without public spaces, and the interactions individuals as free people undergo in those spaces, being understood. So I will probably explore that more in the future on SSR.
adam : The first entry in Alexander's Design Pattern's is "Autonomous Regions". The polity is interweaved with the polis, it's all good.
Chui Tey : Nice, maybe they can turn it into a little Denmark, with bicycle lanes and all.
