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The National Mall : rethinking Washington's monumental core
- Title
- The National Mall : rethinking Washington's monumental core / edited by Nathan Glazer and Cynthia R. Field ; foreword by James F. Cooper.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- viii, 220 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.
- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207) and index.
- 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 -- 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.
- Call Number
- ISI 08-6716
- ISBN
- 9780801888052 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0801888050 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007034001
- OCLC
- 166273738
- Title
- The National Mall : rethinking Washington's monumental core / edited by Nathan Glazer and Cynthia R. Field ; foreword by James F. Cooper.
- Imprint
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Glazer, Nathan.Field, Cynthia R.
- Research Call Number
- ISI 08-6716