UID:
almahu_9949420577002882
Format:
1 online resource (384 pages)
ISBN:
9781421424880 (e-book)
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Kapsch, Robert James. Building Washington : engineering and construction of a new Federal City, 1790-1840. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781421424873
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
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