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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Pierre L'Enfant"”.
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Pars Pro Toto (A Part for the Whole): Re-Envisioning the RFK Stadium Site
For the last three years, D.C. United and the District of Columbia have been negotiating a site for a new stadium for their soccer club. The owners of United wanted to take a small parcel of the land now known as "Poplar Point", an undeveloped brown-field on the Southeast side of the Anacostia …
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Washington, D.C. and the Idea of America: A reappraisal of the 1791 plan for the Nation’s Capital
… political objectives. This thesis argues that Pierre L’Enfant’s 1791 plan for the city is a unique example of eighteenth-century speculative development, that assimilated dominant European garden and urban planning traditions, reflected a critical transition in attitudes towards nature and …