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Title:

The National Mall : rethinking Washington's monumental core / edited by Nathan Glazer and Cynthia R. Field ; foreword by James F. Cooper.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

viii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Subject:

Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
Washington (D.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
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.

Other Authors:

Glazer, Nathan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007738
Field, Cynthia R. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92121778

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-207) and index.

Contents:

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 -- 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 -- 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:

0801888050
9780801888052

OCLC:

(OCoLC)166273738

LCCN:

2007034001

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)