The Rest of Vienna

I walked main street for Strong Towns. Here's more of the lovely NoVa suburb.

I recently had a two-part series in Strong Towns, comparing the pedestrian experience and walkability of two major commercial strips in Fairfax County, Virginia. In the first one, I focused on Vienna’s Maple Avenue thoroughfare.

As I noted in the piece, Maple Avenue was not Vienna’s original commercial district. It was largely built up in the 1950s, afte…