The
National Mall
rethinking Washington's monumental core
Glazer, Nathan
Field, Cynthia R. [Ed.]
text
bibliography
mdu
2008
monographic
eng
viii, 220 p. ill., maps 27 cm.
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 -- Pt. 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 Smithsonia Folklife Festival / Richard Kurin -- Pt. 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.
edited by Nathan Glazer and Cynthia R. Field ; foreword by James F. Cooper.
Include index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207)
Landscape protection
Washington (D.C.)
City planning
United States
Case studies
Aesthetics, American
Case studies
Landscape protection
United States
Case studies
Public spaces
Social aspects
United States
Monuments
Social aspects
United States
Memorials
Social aspects
United States
City planning
Washington (D.C.)
Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
Washington, D.C
Buildings, structures, etc
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