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Reston

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Reston, uninc. city (1990 pop. 48,556), Fairfax co., N Va., a planned community established in 1961. A suburb of Washington, D.C., Reston is organized in a series of residential villages and commercial areas. With over 2,000 businesses, it is headquarters for several major corporations as well as the U.S. Geological Survey. High-technology research and development are important.


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CHEVY CHASE, Md: Affiliates of The JBG Companies announced completion of the acquisition of nine apartment home communities containing 3,726 units, the Reston International Center and The Shops at Mark Center, from the Mark Winkler Company.
Reston in particular owes a debt to the radical writer Ebenezer Howard, whose Garden Cities of Tomorrow (1902) called for suburban towns that would contain and be sustained by both agriculture and industry, with the land held in common by the residents.
Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism by John F.
 
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