Using the Library's article database, I found this article written by Lisa Selin David early this year on nothing other than suburban sprawl. The article focuses on "ways to redesign cities to reduce the effects of urban sprawl and to make them more environment- and people-friendly." Tysons Corner, Virginia is used as an example of suburban sprawl the article is talking about ways fix this place. Her ideas include ways to somehow renew the urban setting or the "overgrown office park" as she sometimes puts it.
"The overgrown office park--which sprang up around Tysons Corner Center, the ninth largest indoor mall in the U.S.--has become the opposite of a bedroom community." Some 120,000 people work in Tysons, but only 17,000 live here."'Every morning, 110,000 cars arrive, and they all leave at 5,' says Clark Tyler, a former federal transportation official and the chairman of a task force whose ambitious goal is to help transform Tysons into a full-fledged city--where people live and work and play 24 hours a day."
"To help turn this overgrown office park into a real city, Tysons' redevelopment task force wants to add as much as six times the number of existing housing units--bringing the total to 50,000--so more people can live closer to where they work." She does however cover all points by stating some of the problems that would occur when trting to execute some of these ideas, "Key challenges include getting private landowners to create a grid of streets and ensuring that development doesn't outpace the infrastructure to support the proposed 85,000 new residents," as related to the housing problem that was mentioned before.
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