Title & Author:

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, ©2008.

Description:

viii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

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

Summary:

The National Mall in Washington, D.C., has held an important place in the American psyche since the early nineteenth century. Home to monuments and museums dedicated to the ideals upon which the United States rests, the Mall serves as a gathering place for public protest and celebration. But as the nation ages and the population diversifies, demands for additional structures and uses have sparked debates over the Mall's future and the necessity of preserving its legacy and the vision of its designers. The National Mall addresses these issues with a novel and compelling collection of essays, the work of leading design professionals, historians, and social scientists. 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. The National Mall presents an overarching account of how a democratic society plans, creates, and expands a national ceremonial space, opening the way for a broadly based inquiry into the Mall as it was, is, and will become. Urban planners, architectural and design historians, and engaged citizens will be challenged and well served by the thoughtful essays collected by Nathan Glazer and Cynthia R. Field.

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ISBN:

9780801888052 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0801888050 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

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.
Paysages Protection Washington (D.C.)
Monuments Aspect social États-Unis.
Espaces publics Aspect social États-Unis.
Paysages Protection États-Unis Études de cas.
Esthétique américaine Études de cas.
Aesthetics, American
Buildings
City planning
Landscape protection
Memorials Social aspects
Public spaces Social aspects
Denkmal
Stadtplanung
Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
Washington (D.C.) Buildings, structures, etc.
United States
Washington (D.C.)
Washington (D.C.) The Mall
National Mall
Washington, DC
Washington <DC> Mall.

Form/genre:

Case studies
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Glazer, Nathan.
Field, Cynthia R.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258077
Call No.: BIB 188673
Status: Available