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100			_aYglesias, Caren _941410
245			_aTo Build a Metaphor : L’Enfant’s Design for the City of Washington
260			_bSage _c2019
300			_aVol 55, Issue 3, 2019 : (172-195 p.)
520			_aRecent scholarship provides evidence for reconsidering the original urban plan for Washington, DC, one of the world’s few planned cities. Commissioned by President George Washington in 1791, Pierre L’Enfant did not, as some scholarship claims, simply follow baroque urban design concepts with associated geometric patterns for his design. Rather, the character of the land guided the location of public squares, each for a state with a “reciprocity of sight” along communicating avenues. L’Enfant conceived of these individual but visually linked state districts as a metaphor that demonstrated a new nation’s ideals of independence and unity in built form.
650			_a city planning _941411
650			_alandscape urbanism _941412
650			_apublic space design _941413
650			_aPierre (Peter) Charles _941414
650			_aL’Enfant _941415
650			_aAmerican planning history _941416
773	0		_011163 _915497 _dSage, 2019 _tJournal of planning history
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/1538513218798346
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