Nathan Glazer is an emeritus professor of sociology and education at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of many books on public policy and urban problems, among them The Public Face of Architecture and From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City. Cynthia R. Field is the architectural historian emerita at the Smithsonian Institution and a faculty member at the Corcoran College of Art. She is the coauthor of The Castle: An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building.
Foreword | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Design of the Mall | |
The Idea of the American Mall | p. 11 |
American Renaissance: Charles Follen McKim and the Aesthetic Ideal | p. 27 |
When Dignity and Beauty Were the Order of the Day: The Contribution of Daniel H. Burnham | p. 41 |
"A Simple Space of Turf": Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.'s Idea for the Mall | p. 55 |
The Nation's Gathering Place | |
The People's Home Ground | p. 69 |
Washington as a Pilgrimage Site | p. 79 |
Culture of by, and for the People: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival | p. 93 |
Monuments for the Future | |
Monuments, Modernism, and the Mall | p. 117 |
Turning Point: The Problematics of Building on the Mall Today | p. 135 |
Planning beyond the Monumental Core | p. 159 |
Biographical Notes | p. 175 |
A Chronology of the Mall | p. 179 |
Notes | p. 187 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 205 |
List of Contributors | p. 209 |
Index | p. 211 |
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