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Earlier this summer we released Foot Traffic Ahead: 2016, a scan of walkable development trends in the thirty largest U.S. metropolitan areas. The report found that across the country, walkable urban places are driving the real estate industry—and Washington, DC is leading the way.
Walkable urban development describes trends resulting from both revitalization of the central city and urbanization of the suburbs. For nearly all metros, the future urbanization of the suburbs holds the greatest opportunity; metro Washington, DC, serves as a model, splitting its WalkUPs relatively evenly between its central city (53 percent) and its suburbs (47 percent).
Earlier this summer we released Foot Traffic Ahead: 2016, a scan of walkable development trends in the thirty largest U.S. metropolitan areas. The report found that across the country, walkable urban places are driving the real estate industry—and Washington, DC is leading the way.
Walkable urban development describes trends resulting from both revitalization of the central city and urbanization of the suburbs. For nearly all metros, the future urbanization of the suburbs holds the greatest opportunity; metro Washington, DC, serves as a model, splitting its WalkUPs relatively evenly between its central city (53 percent) and its suburbs (47 percent).
What website would you recommend to track development in DC? Curbed and some of the other sites don't seem to have an active DC community. I'd love to read more on what's up in DC.
Earlier this summer we released Foot Traffic Ahead: 2016, a scan of walkable development trends in the thirty largest U.S. metropolitan areas. The report found that across the country, walkable urban places are driving the real estate industry—and Washington, DC is leading the way.
Walkable urban development describes trends resulting from both revitalization of the central city and urbanization of the suburbs. For nearly all metros, the future urbanization of the suburbs holds the greatest opportunity; metro Washington, DC, serves as a model, splitting its WalkUPs relatively evenly between its central city (53 percent) and its suburbs (47 percent).
This is more a function of the dc area being vastly under developed until relatively recently. It's been doing the most because it has had the most room for improvement.
DC's small city limits and height limit also contributes. In most cities those suburbs would be within the city limits, and the height limit causes decentralization. It's a trade-off DC has many moderately urban areas, but no intensely urban areas
Last edited by killakoolaide; 11-21-2016 at 09:25 AM..
This is more a function of the dc area being vastly under developed until relatively recently. It's been doing the most because it has had the most room for improvement.
I agree with this. We have grownup in the 1980's - present which is vastly different than other older regions like NYC, Philly, Boston, Chicago etc. etc. We need the type of development we're seeing in our urban area's though because we're out of room and still growing at fast rates. We need to build as much housing in D.C. as possible. We also have a greater ability to build commercial development in our corridors because they were covered in strip malls so developers have a blank slate.
What website would you recommend to track development in DC? Curbed and some of the other sites don't seem to have an active DC community. I'd love to read more on what's up in DC.
DC's small city limits and height limit also contributes. In most cities those suburbs would be within the city limits, and the height limit causes decentralization. It's a trade-off DC has many moderately urban areas, but no intensely urban areas
Whatever D.C. lacks in the urban department is changing rapidly year to year. Now, if you're talking skyscrapers, many urban cities don't have those. D.C. with over 1,000,000 people and a density approaching 20,000 people per square mile will be a very different city than it is today. The former borders of the original D.C. with Arlington and Alexandria is 102 sq. mile's and would have over 1.5 million people with a density over 15,000 people per sq. mile for an area over 100 sq. mile's. That is denser than almost every city outside of NYC and SF.
Last edited by MDAllstar; 11-21-2016 at 09:44 AM..
Whatever D.C. lacks in the urban department is changing rapidly year to year. Now, if you're talking skyscrapers, many urban cities don't have those.
Skyscrapers, given that they aren't vacant, create intense levels of density. While it is possible to become very urban without skyscrapers. Height limits do hold back potential. It's like Paris vs Manhattan. Paris has superior aesthetics, but Manhattan is more intensely urban. The skyscrapers are the main contributing factor to those differences.
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