TY - BOOK AU - Glazer,Nathan AU - Field,Cynthia R.[Ed] TI - The National Mall: rethinking Washington's monumental core SN - 9780801888052 AV - F203.5.M2 M35 2008 U1 - 975.3 22 PY - 2008/// CY - United States of America PB - The Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Landscape protection KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - Local KW - City planning KW - United States KW - Case studies KW - Aesthetics, American KW - Public spaces KW - Social aspects KW - Monuments KW - Memorials KW - Mall, The (Washington, D.C.) KW - Washington, D.C KW - Buildings, structures, etc N1 - Include index; Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207); 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 ER -