Re: OT: Columbia, MD and the social impact of Ft. Meade/NSA?

From: R. Dale Shipp (dale@min.net)
Date: 03/26/03 

From: R. Dale Shipp <R. Dale Shipp <dale@min.net>>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:30:09 GMT

In article <t9fu7vc54nbfnvms77og579l8up9po2qci@4ax.com>, guardian6
@erols.com says...
> >Columbia is pretty famous as a planned city. It was essentially built
> >by a single company starting in the early 1960s.
> >

  Developed by a single company (Rouse et al), but homes were built by a
number of developers (e.g. Ryland, Ryan, Levitt, ...).

> place, i.e. it's full of mostly white, mostly middle-class people.

  The mostly middle-class is fairly accurate, but from its inception
Columbia has been a racially diverse community.

> The no-big-signs restriction keeps down
> the visual clutter, but sometimes it's hard to find businesses.

  Very true.

> I find the road design and the "villages" concept to be overdone.

  Once you get used to it, the road design makes very good sense. It is
like a collection of streams feeding into rivers, which in turn feed
into bigger rivers until you get to the main highways. Makes giving
directions hard, but also cuts down on through traffic.

>
> Besides the clones image, Columbia tends to be overly expensive - home
> prices are too high for what you get (a problem common to all of the

  True in a sense. If you look purely at the house itself, then prices
are cheaper at outparcels and in more distant counties. But if you
consider everything, including intangibles, you get more than you get in
those other places (assuming you want the things that are there). 

-- 
R. Dale Shipp
dale@min.net

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