Building Washington : : engineering and construction of a new Federal City, 1790-1840 / / Robert J. Kapsch.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 pages) |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Building Washington : |b engineering and construction of a new Federal City, 1790-1840 / |c Robert J. Kapsch. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Baltimore : |b Johns Hopkins University Press, |c 2018. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a City planning |z Washington (D.C.) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Public works |z Washington (D.C.) | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Washington (D.C.) |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Washington (D.C.) |x Social conditions. | |
| 655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Kapsch, Robert James. |t Building Washington : engineering and construction of a new Federal City, 1790-1840. |d Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018 |z 9781421424873 |
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