A Little More on Rockville Pike

A few miles of suburban Maryland are a compendium of America's urban history

I recently wrote a two-part series—here’s part 1 and here’s part 2—for Strong Towns on Rockville Pike, a major commercial corridor in Maryland’s Montgomery County. The area is part of the D.C. suburbs, though as I detail in the articles, it’s seeing a transformation from low-rise sprawl to denser and more urban development.

This is a big change from the …