ABSTRACT
Tysons Corner, Virginia, is an unincorporated settlement twelve miles west of Washington, DC, midway to the Dulles International Airport. Located in Northeast Fairfax County, Tysons Corner has its centre at the intersection of four major highways – Route 7, Route 23, the Dulles Airport Access Road and the Washington Beltway (Interstate 495). Before World War II, there was little to indicate that a major economic and commercial centre would emerge from this patch of farmland. Remembered as little more than a ‘beer joint and a feed store’ in 1939, Tysons would come to epitomize the general growth of the American suburb in the postwar years (Figure 9.1).
