| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 333 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Project planning and construction efforts. Pierre L'Enfant's two plans for executing the president's vision -- Financing the Federal City : the difficulty of collecting adequate funds -- Constructing the Federal City : gathering materials and workers -- Developing a commercial center: harbor navigation and river improvements -- Early infrastructure and transport improvements -- Building military defenses for the capital -- Building campaigns: a timeline of Washington, D.C.'s first fifty years. The first public building campaign (1791-1802): clashing commissioners and -- Workers -- The second public building campaign (1803-1811): the president and the architect -- The third public building campaign (1815-1824): rebuilding the Federal City -- Later transportation improvements: canals and aqueducts -- Epilogue: building a new Federal City. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
City planning -- Washington (D.C.)
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City planning. |
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Washington (D.C.) |
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Public works -- Washington (D.C.)
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Public works. |
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Washington (D.C.) -- History.
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History. |
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Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Demonstration (Washington, D.C. : 1971) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kapsch, Robert James, 1942- Building Washington. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018 9781421424873 (DLC) 2017030368 (OCoLC)992120263 |
| ISBN |
9781421424880 (electronic book) |
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1421424886 (electronic book) |
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9781421424873 |
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1421424878 |
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