Sorry I don’t care.. I prefer to live in suburbs and work in the suburbs..
The new Rockville town center, if you could call Rockville a city...is quite nicely done. It replaced an ugly aging structure and quite a bit of suburban blight. This is however not the city, and the area the new development covers is quite small, has some shopping a movie theatre and restaurants. It’s also close to the Montgomery county offices and the courthouses.
I think what the author of this articles should have said, is that city or townscape retail/commercial architecture has made a comeback in suburbia. There is tons of this style going up, extending as far out as the exurbs. Nobody is building shopping malls anymore. The closest thing are box centers, and the mini townscape shopping centers surrounded by parking lots is the new commercial style.