Slide Show: Park Blocks, PDX and DC

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View down the Mall in Washington, D.C.

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View down the North Park Blocks in Portland, OR.

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View down the Mall to Buckingham Palace in London.

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L'Enfant plan for Washington, D.C., in surveyor Andrew Ellicott's map of 1792.

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Color coded map of Washington highlights hierarchy and open spaces of the grid plan overlaid with Baroque diagonals, as envisioned by L'Enfant in his original plan of 1791.

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McMillan Plan for Washington's Monumental Core, reestablishing the long swath of open space that L'Enfant had designed as the Mall.

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National Mall circa 1901.

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National Mall circa 1908.

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Eisenhower Memorial design, as proposed by Frank Gehry.

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Portland's Park Blocks show up in the 1852 plan of Daniel Lownsdale.

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