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Slide Show: Park Blocks, PDX and DC
February 11, 2013
View down the Mall in Washington, D.C.
View down the North Park Blocks in Portland, OR.
View down the Mall to Buckingham Palace in London.
L'Enfant plan for Washington, D.C., in surveyor Andrew Ellicott's map of 1792.
Color coded map of Washington highlights hierarchy and open spaces of the grid plan overlaid with Baroque diagonals, as envisioned by L'Enfant in his original plan of 1791.
McMillan Plan for Washington's Monumental Core, reestablishing the long swath of open space that L'Enfant had designed as the Mall.
National Mall circa 1901.
National Mall circa 1908.
Eisenhower Memorial design, as proposed by Frank Gehry.
Portland's Park Blocks show up in the 1852 plan of Daniel Lownsdale.
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