Why doesn’t it spread across the bridge to Rosslyn?
Lanier: Rosslyn was built for a totally different purpose. The challenge for Rosslyn and other areas is how can you take scale, like New York has scale, and give humanity to it? Darby: And why is Washington different than London, Paris or Rome? Those cities have operated as urban centers where people lived and worked for centuries, yet Washington, until not that long ago, did not operate as successfully. People were amazed that we did a development at 11th and M street, an area five years ago where people wouldn’t have walked. We have to forget about the past and truly build a city, so it’s like London and those cities around the world where the moment you walk into it you think, wow, isn’t this a great city. Washington hasn’t quite got there, but it’s getting there. Lanier: Washington has the ability to be an accumulation of neighborhoods. To me, the ideal city is London, which has an accumulation of neighborhoods. So I think Washington has the best of London, and the capability of th
