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Arlington’s Urban Villages

Arlington, Virginia is an urban county of about 26 square miles, directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The county's small geographic area contains a surprising diversity of neighborhoods, from booming business districts with towering skyscrapers to quaint residential neighborhoods with a small-town feel. Teeming with shopping centers and lively nightlife, Arlington has a little bit of everything for everyone. Couple this urban diversity with planned development centered around one of the best public transportation systems in the country, and you have a community where one can live, work, and play...no car required.

Within this small geographic area lie the booming business centers of Crystal City, Rosslyn and Ballston, the local government center in Court House, the quirky liveliness of Clarendon, Pentagon City's world-class shopping, the Lee Highway and Columbia Pike commercial corridors, and the quaint neighborhoods of Virginia Square, Westover, and Shirlington. Each of these "urban villages" is well-served by public transportation and amenities for bicyclists and walkers, connecting the neighborhoods to each other and to the rest of the metropolitan area.

Each urban village is a distinctive and multifaceted community with jobs, housing, and recreation all within a few blocks of each other. We encourage you to use this site to explore the richness and variety that Arlington's urban villages have to offer.

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Arlington's urban villages are walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods well served by public transportation. People who live in these neighborhoods are able to walk to shopping or to restaurants and hop on Metrorail, Metrobus or ART when they need to go anywhere else in the Washington Metro area. More about Arlington's urban villages.