Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
By Kirk Savage.
Description
The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is a great public space, as essential a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon,” according to architecture critic Paul Goldberger, but few realize how recent, fragile, and contested this achievement is. In Monument Wars, Kirk Savage tells the Mall's engrossing storyits historic plan, the structures that populate its corridors, and the sea change it reveals regarding national representation. Central to this narrative is a dramatic shift from the nineteenth-century concept of a decentralized landscape, or ground”-heroic st...
ISBN(s)
0520256549, 9780520256545
