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Monument wars Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the transformation of the memorial landscape

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 story-its 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 statues spread out in.

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  • "Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century."
  • "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 story-its 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 statues spread out in."@en

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  • "Monument wars Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the transformation of the memorial landscape"@en
  • "Monument wars : Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the transformation of the Memorial landscape"
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  • "Monument wars : Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the transformation of the memorial landscape"

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