Columbia is so perfectly suburbia that now they want to change it and make it urban.
"The project’s website is more blunt: “The Third City Between D.C. and Baltimore Has Come to Life!” it announces.
The densification mirrors a trend in other U.S. suburbs that are embracing live-work developments and a need to create more pandemic-resilient downtowns. Many are trying to transform themselves into “urban ‘burbs” — retrofitting the amenities, infrastructure and sensibility of traditional cities into spaces conceived as escapes from city life. But Columbia’s utopian genesis complicates the plan: The town is toeing a line between encouraging growth and adhering to all of the founding ideals — inclusivity and spatial openness among them — that Rouse got right. Creating a walkable downtown also necessitates confronting a stubbornly auto-oriented planning legacy."
How a Pioneering Garden City Is Grappling With Growth - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-21/a-pioneering-garden-city-grapples-with-growing-pains
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