Spread Out or Smashed Together?

Different perceptions of sprawl-style development

On the way home from a family trip down to the Charlottesville-area Virginia countryside—about which I’ll be writing a couple of illustrated posts here—we stopped at a Costco in suburban Manassas, in an area that’s kind of exurban but growing, just off Interstate 66, which is undergoing a massive widening project. (No doubt reducing congestion was one o…