Building Washington : Engineering and Construction of the New Federal City, 1790−1840 /

"In 1790, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson set out to build a new capital for the United States of America in just ten years. The area they selected on the banks of the Potomac River, a spot halfway between the northern and southern states, had few resources or inhabitants. Almost everyth...

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Autor principal: Kapsch, Robert James, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Public works.
City planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
Travaux publics > Washington (D.C.)
Public works > Washington (D.C.)
City planning > Washington (D.C.)
Washington (D.C.)
Washington (D.C.) > Histoire.
Washington (D.C.) > Social conditions.
Washington (D.C.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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