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Shovel-Ready Suburbs
Illustration by Tim Gough
Robert Mortensen designs sprawling golf courses, drives an SUV and lives in McLean, a ritzy enclave of Northern Virginia known for its popularity among Capitol Hill’s conservative elite. He is not exactly the guy one expects to see when meeting the community organizer behind an ambitious urbanization plan that could, in the next decade, help decide the future of the suburbs. Then he opens his mouth.
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