Blog: Smart Growth

You know Smart Growth—the philosophy of building "compact, transit-oriented, walkable, bicycle-friendly land use, including mixed-use development"—is getting popular when a business district's annual report bears the title "We Are Smart Growth".

That business district is Barracks Row, a street of shops along 8th Street SE in Washington near the Eastern Market station. Stefanie and I took the subway out to Eastern Market to check out the District's largest farmers' market and found a vibrant, mixed-use (and rapidly gentrifying) neighborhood full of interesting shops and really cute townhouses.