Author: Arlington County (Va.). Office of PlanningPublisher:
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Land Use in Arlington County, Virginia, 1955
Author: Arlington County (Va.). Office of PlanningPublisher:
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Land Use in Arlington County, Virginia, 1955
Author: Arlington Co., Va. Office of PlanningPublisher:
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Open Space Land Planning and Taxation
Author: Urban Land InstitutePublisher:
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Preliminary Report [to Arlington County Planning Commission] on Commercial Development and Zoning in Arlington County, Virginia
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Author: George C. SmithPublisher:
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The Great Society Subway
Author: Zachary M. SchragPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421415771
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
As Metro stretches to Tysons Corner and beyond, this paperback edition features a new preface from the author. Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don't bet on it unless you're in the fast lane of the Capital Beltway during rush hour. Little wonder, then, that so many residents and visitors rely on the Washington Metro, the 106-mile rapid transit system that serves the District of Columbia and its inner suburbs. In the first comprehensive history of the Metro, Zachary M. Schrag tells the story of the Great Society Subway from its earliest rumblings to the present day, from Arlington to College Park, Eisenhower to Marion Barry. Unlike the pre–World War II rail systems of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, the Metro was built at a time when most American families already owned cars, and when most American cities had dedicated themselves to freeways, not subways. Why did the nation's capital take a different path? What were the consequences of that decision? Using extensive archival research as well as oral history, Schrag argues that the Metro can be understood only in the political context from which it was born: the Great Society liberalism of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. The Metro emerged from a period when Americans believed in public investments suited to the grandeur and dignity of the world's richest nation. The Metro was built not merely to move commuters, but in the words of Lyndon Johnson, to create "a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community." Schrag scrutinizes the project from its earliest days, including general planning, routes, station architecture, funding decisions, land-use impacts, and the behavior of Metro riders. The story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.
Built by the People Themselves
Author: Lindsey BestebreurtjePublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643364995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The story of how racial segregation and suburbanization shaped lives, the built environment, and the law in Arlington In Built by the People Themselves, Lindsey Bestebreurtje traces the history of the Black community in Arlington, Virginia, from the first days of emancipation through the civil rights era in the twentieth century. A core insight of her account is how common people developed strategies to survive and thrive despite systems of oppression in the Jim Crow South. Moving beyond the standard story of suburbanization that focuses on elite white community developers, Bestebreurtje analyzes African American–led community development and its effects on Arlington County.
A Summary of the Master Plan of Arlington County, Virginia, 1961
Author: Arlington County (Va.). Office of PlanningPublisher:
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Category : Arlington County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Planning, Current Literature
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Transportation planning
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Committee Prints
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan ProblemsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Publication
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Category : Public administration
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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