Title & Author:

National Mall / [Kyle May, editor in chief ; editors, Julia van den Hout [and three others]].

Publication:

[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : CLOG, [2012]
©2012

Description:

118 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 22 cm

Series:

CLOG, 2164-9782 ; November 2012

Notes:
"November 2012"--Back cover.
Map of the National Mall -- Portrait of the Mall -- How big is the National Mall? -- National Mall / Mall of America what represents us best? -- Optimistic about empty -- Mistaken identity -- Plans for the Nation Mall: 1791-2012 -- L'Enfant's plan for Washington D.C., and the precedent: the plan of Versailles -- The east wing -- J. Carter Brown -- Lessons learned -- Monument plans over time -- Problems with process and product on the Eisenhower Memorial -- America's front porch -- Memorial as landscape -- Dime -- Memorial lifespan -- Memorial expectancy -- Which memorials are next? -- Building a better flood wall -- Colossus -- Anti-symbolic space -- Memorial for heroes -- Staking ground -- Written in stone -- More slip or slide? -- Doves and domes -- National Museum of African American History and Culture -- The National Mall: a timeline -- The grass is now greener -- Usage of the mall -- Ulmus Americana 'Jefferson' -- The National Nursery: growing the city's trees -- Mall post 9/11 -- Presidential security -- Land of the free -- Castles and crypts -- Bubble: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden expansion -- Mediating in-between the void -- In defense of the donut -- Augmenting the NPS -- Interview with the trust for the National Mall -- Constitution Gardens -- Washington Monument grounds at Sylvan Theater -- Union Square -- Interview with the National Park Service -- The process -- Public Mall.

Summary:

"In 2009, nearly two million people gathered on the National Mall to witness the inauguration of the forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama. Almost fifty years ago on the same grounds, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech. 'America's Front Lawn, ' the National Mall was not only designed for large political and social gatherings but also to collect and showcase America's culture. Located in the heart of Washington D.C., the Mall is an historic yet evolving example of urban design. Visited annually by approximately thirty million people, the Mall is also a victim of its own success as its grounds and monuments have been steadily eroded by overcrowding in addition to budgetary and administrative pressures. In response to this decline, the newly-formed Trust for the National Mall recently sponsored a competition to redesign key areas of the National Mall. A number of other significant projects are also underway on or near the Mall including the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Education Center at the Wall, the Eisenhower Memorial, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, the Hirshhorn Museum Bloomberg Balloon, and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation. In an election year when America is debating and deciding its trajectory, it's time to critically discuss the space that perhaps more than any other reflects what the nation was, is, and wants to be -- the National Mall."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780983820444
0983820449

Subject:

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

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

May, Kyle, editor.
Hout, Julia van den, editor.
CLOG ; November 2012.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289405
Call No.: BIB 231843
Status: Available