Katherine Shaver
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Your favorite bench might be there to thwart a terrorist attack
WASHINGTON - When landscape architects recently began redesigning a wide, red-brick sidewalk in Washington's Chinatown, they initially focused on improving the storm-water runoff and making it easier for pedestrians to...

Looking for “city” living in the suburbs? Some are finding it in aging office parks
From the rooftop terrace of their new townhouse, Keisuke and Idalia Yabe take in their suburban Maryland neighborhood: a staid, 1970s-era office park of glass office buildings and concrete parking...