The Oakhurst food desert (updated)
Oakhurst does not fit any colloquial or technical definition of “food desert” — “L.T.”, August 4, 2012 L.T. is a 30-something software professional who describes himself as an “amateur economist” in...
View ArticleGreyfields: a historic preservation gray area
Too frequently historic preservationists have failed to appreciate the entire urban landscape … Parking, as part of urban history, should not be rejected out of hand by any history aficionado — John A....
View ArticleFairway: Silver Spring’s ghost town
During World War II, the U.S. government built “temporary suburbs” throughout the United States. One of those suburbs was located just north of the District of Columbia in a part of unincorporated...
View ArticleA modernist Four Corners home
Last year a longtime South Four Corners resident took me on a brief walking tour of his Silver Spring, Md., neighborhood. I had reached out to him because I was researching the history of a temporary...
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