tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post7566681983286141849..comments2024-02-29T14:00:40.184-05:00Comments on Restonian: News blog from Reston, Virginia, the mauve-colored New Town (tm): Flashback Monday: Washington Post Looks Back at Bob Simon's Past, Reston's FutureRestonianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15519884797760354007noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-40254765753093726012014-04-18T17:42:36.453-04:002014-04-18T17:42:36.453-04:00Great to See Bob living high over Lake Anne. I liv...Great to See Bob living high over Lake Anne. I lived in Reston in 1969. Was 8 years old and have great memories exploring the area immedietely srrounding the city center. Still a lot of construction going on at that point. I lived in the apartments across from Lake Anne School on North Shore. My two best friends lived in houses off Fairway Drive. Bill Shuster and Kirk Bloomgarden. Great time and great place to be an eight year old, if only for a year. Thanks Bob. Jack The Ripperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15874278306814259528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-55483091471276953392014-04-01T10:39:36.132-04:002014-04-01T10:39:36.132-04:00Happy Birthday Bob!Happy Birthday Bob!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-43194323695408911592014-03-31T22:06:09.888-04:002014-03-31T22:06:09.888-04:00All good students of the history of urban planning...All good students of the history of urban planning will remember their professors going ga-ga over the establishment of the new towns Reston and Columbia even though neither they nor their students had ever actually seen these places. Surprise! They look pretty much like every other suburb, and the term Planned Community has since been used to describe almost anything that developers can build in the burbs. The Woodlands, Texas, north of Houston, is probably the best of the shiny new planned communities out there, once you get past the south Texas heat and humidity. (Of course, compared to the sprawling megalopolis mess that is Houston and its burbs, almost anything will look like it's been "planned".) While Reston and been surrounded--and is threatened to be completely absorbed--by other suburban development, Columbia is still relatively isolated up there in Howard County, MD with their big cool Christmas-hating mall and Merriweather Post Pavilion.Historiannoreply@blogger.com