George Washington's Washington: Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic

George Washington's Washington: Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic
ISBN-10
0820352853
ISBN-13
9780820352855
Category
City planning
Pages
263
Language
English
Published
2018
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Author
Adam Costanzo

Description

Introduction -- Part I. Grand visions and financial disasters. Dreams of metropolis -- Speculating in failure -- A boomtown without a boom -- Part II. A "federal town" on the Potomac. Jeffersonians and the federal city -- The limits of local control -- Part III. Making the capital national, 1814-1828. Saving and rebuilding Washington -- Striving to be a national city -- Part IV. The seat of a continental empire. A symbolic national capital -- Federal intervention -- Epilogue.

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