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A Tale Of YIMBYism

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Dan Malouff
21 September 2004 - 8:00am

Northern Virginia suburbanites to tear down, redevelop their own near-transit neighborhood at higher densities.

Poplar Terrace is a Vienna, VA subdivision with big yards and towering trees, built long before the nearby Metrorail station was ever imagined. Now, nearly all of the 70 homeowners have banded together to form a real estate collective that proposes to raze their 40-acre community and redevelop it as a cluster of more than 1,000 condominiums and townhouses.

Full Story: N.Va. Neighbors Hoping To Raze, Rebuild, Profit
Source: The Washington Post, September 20, 2004
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All of that only scratches the surface of what's wrong with this study. The idea that complex urban development patterns and human behavior can be meaningfully studied according to one primary criteria — density — is wrong from the start.
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