(Header Image: Aerial Shot of Tysons Corner, Virginia, 2010. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Original Image Link here. No changes were made to this image from its original state.) Up until the 1960s, the intersection of Route 123 and Route 7 in northern Fairfax County, Virginia, located roughly ten miles northwest of the heart of Washington, was a […]
Understanding America’s Growing Spatial Inequality
It’s no secret that gains from the robust economic recovery following the Great Recession have disproportionately gone to a small number of areas in the United States. For instance, 20 metropolitan areas collectively account for about one-quarter of the country’s population, but over 40% of job growth since 2010. Additionally, employment in urban areas since […]