Introduction | |
Acknowledgments | |
Adaptation | p. 1 |
Canal Square, Washington, D.C. | p. 1 |
The Foundary, Washington, D.C. | p. 8 |
The Cairo Hotel, Washington, D.C. | p. 11 |
Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, New York | p. 15 |
The Old Post Office, Washington, D.C. | p. 20 |
Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, D.C. | p. 28 |
The Car Barn, Washington, D.C. | p. 30 |
The Ford Plant Project, Alexandria, Virginia | p. 34 |
Star Carpet Works, Washington, D.C. | p. 40 |
Reflections | p. 53 |
Restoration | p. 55 |
The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Charleston, South Carolina | p. 56 |
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. | p. 59 |
The U.S. Treasury Building, Washington, D.C. | p. 71 |
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. | p. 77 |
Reflections | p. 82 |
Preparing for Downtowns | p. 87 |
The architecture of the absurd | p. 87 |
The challenge of fakery | p. 96 |
Visions of the future/the syntax of the city | p. 106 |
Downtowns | p. 115 |
Charleston, South Carolina | p. 115 |
Nashville, Tennessee | p. 121 |
York, Pennsylvania | p. 126 |
Rockville, Maryland | p. 130 |
Fort Wayne, Indiana | p. 132 |
Petersburg, Virginia | p. 135 |
Columbus, Georgia | p. 139 |
An Alternative to Washington's Downtown Urban Renewal Plan | p. 144 |
Winston-Salem, North Carolina | p. 148 |
Corning, New York | p. 153 |
Baltimore, Maryland | p. 156 |
Reflections | p. 160 |
City Preservation | p. 173 |
National Airport | p. 173 |
The Kennedy Center Steps and Promenade | p. 176 |
The D.C. Temporary contemporary | p. 179 |
Maryland Avenue housing | p. 181 |
Rosslyn waterfront, Arlington, Virginia | p. 185 |
The City observation tower/Old Post Office Building | p. 188 |
The White House fence | p. 190 |
The D.C. convention center | p. 195 |
Reflections | p. 198 |
Expansions | p. 201 |
Permissive discontinuity | p. 203 |
Preservation in the avant-garde | p. 209 |
New leadership | p. 211 |
The new preservation | p. 212 |
Bibliography | p. 219 |
Index | p. 223 |
About the Author | p. 229 |
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