Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 6: Washington, D. C
The original map of Washington made in 1791 was the first plan drawn for a capital city of a great nation.
Other capitals have been a growth, beginning as villages without design, or thought of future progress or greatness, and in their gradual development from village to town and their final expansion into cities have been hampered by the original lines of roadways, the gradual addition of streets and suburbs, and the loca tion of more or less important buildings, each roadway, street, or suburb having been laid out according to in dividual whim, with little or no consideration for a future city that would be a harmonious whole.
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