The National Mall: Rethinking Washington's Monumental Core
The National Mall: Rethinking Washington's Monumental Core
$35.00
Glazer, Nathan, and Cynthia R. Field
eds. Cl. Baltimore, 2008
Book ID: 78095
Supplemented by eye-catching illustrations and photographs, this cross-disciplinary examination follows the discussion over the Mall's design and use from its conceptual origins as part of Pierre Charles L'Enfant's vision for the capital to the 1902 McMillan Plan to the present day and beyond. It assesses how architectural, societal, and political changes have altered the parklike space between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial and explores the influence that disparate interest groups and creeping corporatism have already had on--and are likely to exert upon--America's public square.
220 pp. , 66 halftone illu.