DC Metro Region - The Impact of Design

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About DC Metro Region - The Impact of Design

The Coalition for Smarter Growth, a nonprofit focusing on land use and transportation in the DC Metro region, is hosting this group to solicit photos that reflect the impacts of community design on our daily lives.

This group is about the good, the bad, the pretty, and the ugly of community design in the DC region:

-- People eating lunch at an outdoor cafe on Bethesda Row
-- Wary pedestrians attempting to cross Route 7 in Tysons Corner
-- A bicyclist commuting to work
-- Bustling sidewalks
-- An elderly couple walking to the theater
-- The red glare of taillights in a traffic jam
-- On-street parking with trees buffering the sidewalk
-- Blank walls facing streets with no sidewalks
-- Kids walking to a store or to school
-- Parking lots
-- Isolated office parks
-- Isolated schools
-- Anything showing our culture's dependence on cars
-- People enjoying a park
-- Anything showing the benefits of a well-integrated, mixed-use community (how about a shot of a Metro bus passing an outdoor market with a Zipcar and a bike in the background -- aim high!)

UPDATES TO LIST

REGIONAL
-- Someone unpacking a moving truck into a suburban-looking home
-- Someone stuck in traffic, upset (kids fighting in backseat?)

DC
-- Area around New York Ave Metro
-- Recent and pre-development Gallery Place
-- Upper Wisconsin Avenue
-- Large parcels (SE Federal Center)

MARYLAND
-- New Carrollton
-- Rockville Pike traffic
-- Route 3 outside of Fredericksburg
-- Silver Spring
-- Kentlands
-- Prince George’s County development

VIRGINIA
-- Arlington street life, night life (Clarendon, Ballston, “new” Crystal City)
-- Arlington pre-redevelopment
-- Old Town Alexandria (street life, pedestrians crossing streets)
-- Reston Town Center (shops, residential buildings, outdoor cafes)
-- Tysons (parking lots, pedestrians trying to cross roads)
-- Dunn Loring
-- VRE at Woodbridge

By sharing your perspective on community design with us, you can help us educate others about the importance of good planning.

PLEASE NOTE:

By submitting photos to this group, you are granting us permission to use them, with attribution, in our educational materials, including our website (www.smartergrowth.net), presentations, and printed materials. We will notify you if we use one of your photos.

We appreciate your help and support!


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The Coalition for Smarter Growth is proud to be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2007!