Streetcar Desires: The Death of the Arlington Streetcar and the Cultural Politics of Smart Growth Development

In 2014, Arlington County—an affluent suburb of Washington, DC—became embroiled in a bitter political debate over a proposed streetcar line on Columbia Pike, a street that traverses some of the County’s last remaining working-class and new immigrant neighborhoods. Viewed alternatively as vanguard fo...

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Main Author: Timothy A. Gibson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst 2017-09-01
Series:communication +1
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Online Access:http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol6/iss1/7