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Year: 2010
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America’s front yard
This letter below is in response to The Washington Post’s July 4th “Topic A,” “What would you do to change America’s front yard?”
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Wrong Thing, Wrong Time (Editorial by The Los Angeles Times)
Thursday’s meeting of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts has been moved from a small conference room to an Interior Department auditorium, one measure of a growing tumult over the […]
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Topic A: What would you do to change America’s front yard?
Judy Scott Feldman, Ken Salazar, Caroline Cunningham and James P. Clark share their visions for how to upgrade, expand or change the federal lands in the heart of our nation’s capital.
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Site Recommendations for the Latino American Museum
The Commission studying potential locations for the future Latino American museum will present its site recommendations this coming Thursday, July 1st, at the public session of the National Capital Planning Commission.
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Senator Jim Webb on National Mall Traffic and Tour Busses
The lack of affordable public transit, parking, and rational policy for dealing with the flood of tour buses on the Mall, is once again in the news, and now has garnered the interest of Virginia Senator Jim Webb.
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National Trust for Historic Preservation: America’s Great Outdoors initiative
Dear Coalition Friends: The National Trust for Historic Preservation is working to broaden the Obama Administration’s new America’s Great Outdoors initiative to include not only natural resources but also our cultural […]
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‘Make No Little Plans’ Screening
Next Wednesday, June 9th, on the National Mall is an open-air screening of the documentary film Make No Little Plans about architect Daniel Burnham. It is free and open to the public. See the press release below.
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Coalition comments on the proposed Environmental Document for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
These comments are submitted in response to the scoping for the environmental document to be prepared by the Eisenhower Memorial Commission and the National Park Service for the Eisenhower Memorial […]
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Kirk Savage Awarded 22nd Annual Eldredge Prize
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2010 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Kirk Savage for his book Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape (University of California Press, 2009).
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David Alpert on Monumentalism
It’s exciting to see the growing interest for outside-the-box thinking about the future of the National Mall.
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