Can The Nation's Pre-Eminent Edge City Turn Into A Real Downtown?

Tyson's Corner, the commercial district in suburban Washington, DC featured in Joel Garreau's classic book Edge City: Life on the New Fronter, has plans to become a real downtown.

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April 21, 2003, 5:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


Tyson's Corner, in Fairfax County, Virginia, is an international model of the polycentric, suburban form that new development in the US has followed in the late twentieth century. Its sprawling landscape of office buildings and shopping centers set amidst parking lots and green spaces has been oft criticized for its lack of street-level vitality and general inaccessibility to pedestrians. However, Fairfax County executives have ambitious plans to reengineer the image of this suburban center. They want to transform the pre-eminent edge city into the downtown for Fairfax County - replete with all the urban fixings.

Thanks to Joel Dabu

Sunday, April 20, 2003 in The Washington Post

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