History of Reston Virginia brought to you by Realtor Scott Montgomery
August 14th, 2008 Categories: Keller Williams, Real Estate News, Reston
Reston is a Planned Community in Northern Virginia. Today’s Reston is the product of the vision of Robert E. Simon, Jr. and the Mobil Corporation. It is the nation’s best known and most successful planned community, or New Town, as they are often called. Planned Communities integrate every aspect of human life including the social and economic, education, health services, recreation, religious institutions, industrial facilities and commercial centers. Placement of roads, utilities and housing are predetermined for the entire development in advance of construction. Housing is provided for a variety of income levels. The planned community movement started in Great Britain in the late nineteenth century and spread to the United States after World War I. During the 1930s, the U.S. government sponsored planned communities called “greenbelt towns.”
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