Tag: Silver Spring
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Silver Spring Library Review
Silver Spring’s Ho-Hum Library The Washington Post, Aug. 2, 2015 The new Silver Spring branch of the Montgomery County library opened to much fanfare. The building is big — five stories, three of which are for the library — and sits on one of the busiest corners downtown. Designed by the Lukmire Partnership, an Arlington…
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Urbanizing Gas Stations
Why Gas-Station Restaurants Are Great for Suburbs A new crop of restaurants in gas stations, like Seoul Food D.C., will help suburbs grow into more authentic urban places. CityLab, Nov. 14, 2014 It’s 1 p.m. on a Tuesday, and I’m at Seoul Food D.C., eating a kimchi-bacon rice bowl as I watch cars whoosh down…
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Bing in the Burbs
The Architect’s Newspaper, Feb. 27, 2013 Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson put the phrase “retrofitting suburbia” into the urbanist lexicon back in 2008, when they published a book about a movement to turn dying malls and car-choked strips into mixed-use, walkable places. Slowed by the recession, the movement roared back into view in Maryland this…
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