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edited by Nathan Glazer and Cynthia R. Field ; foreword by James F. CooperPublication Details
BookJohns Hopkins University Press2008Availability
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Description
The National Mall in Washington, D.C., has held an important place in the American psyche since the early nineteenth century. The National Mall presents an overarching account of how a democratic society plans, creates, and expands a national ceremonial space, opening the way for a broadly based inquiry into the Mall as it was, is, and will become. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Landscape protection — Washington (D.C.)
- City planning — Washington (D.C.)
- Memorials — Social aspects — United States
- Monuments — Social aspects — United States
- Public spaces — Social aspects — United States
- Landscape protection — United States — Case studies
- Aesthetics, American — Case studies
- City planning — United States — Case studies
- Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.) — Buildings, structures, etc
Contents
- pt. 1.The design of the Mall:The idea of the American Mall /Michael J. Lewis
- American Renaissance : Charles Follen McKim and the aesthetic ideal /Richard Guy Wilson
- When dignity and beauty were the order of the day: the contribution of Daniel H. Burnham /Cynthia R. Field
- "A simple space of turf" : Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.’s idea for the Mall /Witold Rybczynski
- |gpt. 2. The nations’ gathering place:The people’s home ground /Edith L.B. Turner
- Washington as a pilgrimage site /Frederick Turner
- Culture of, by, and for the people : the Smithsonian Folklife Festival /Richard Kurin
- |gpt. 3. Monuments for the future:Monuments, modernism, and the Mall /Nathan Glazer
- Turning point : the problematics of building on the Mall today /Judy Scott Feldman
- Planning beyond the monumental core / Patricia E. Gallagher
ISBN
- 9780801888052
- 0801888050
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