%0 Journal Article
%T To Build a Metaphor: LĄŻEnfantĄŻs Design for the City of Washington
%A Caren Yglesias
%J Journal of Planning History
%@ 1552-6585
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1538513218798346
%X Recent scholarship provides evidence for reconsidering the original urban plan for Washington, DC, one of the worldĄŻs few planned cities. Commissioned by President George Washington in 1791, Pierre LĄŻEnfant did not, as some scholarship claims, simply follow baroque urban design concepts with associated geometric patterns for his design. Rather, the character of the land guided the location of public squares, each for a state with a Ą°reciprocity of sightĄ± along communicating avenues. LĄŻEnfant conceived of these individual but visually linked state districts as a metaphor that demonstrated a new nationĄŻs ideals of independence and unity in built form
%K city planning
%K American planning history
%K LĄŻEnfant
%K Pierre (Peter) Charles
%K public space design
%K landscape urbanism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1538513218798346