Metro Areas Are Places

Hyperlocalism makes for poor regional land use

This is Arlington, Virginia’s housing shortfall.

Well, it’s actually a traffic jam on I-66 West in Prince William County. Between crashes, construction, and rush-hour volume, this is a brutal drive. My wife and I were on this route visiting a sunflower farm out by Prince William County’s Rural Crescent, a rural/agricultural area far from the urban core t…