Place Effects - Geographic Notes

Theo

This must explain my odd fascination with Southwest. Traces of 9000 dwellings inhabit the streets between federal edifices.

subset of aerial photo - 1935 - showing the National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, and to the east some temporary office buildings from World War I , then behind the brand new National Archives and Navy Memorial which partially displaced the old Central Market and Tiber Creek.

In the detail to the east of the channel you can find a still intact area called the Waterfront which was filled with docks and warehouses and working class houses, and folks who were making a living from the river in the still-small town of Washington. Little did they know they would be wiped out in 20 years by urban renewal and replaced by monolithic edifices of the federal government.

1935 - Aerial view of East Potomac Park, including the East Potomac Golf Club on Hains Point, in Washington, D.C., looking north towards the National Mall. The Jefferson Memorial has not yet been built.

Photo Credit: Bolling Field Air Force Base, Photo Section. Library of Congress

probability of a white Christmas (NOAA map)

A car stops beside a house in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, China, November 22, 2012. An elderly couple refused to sign an agreement to allow their house to be demolished. They say that compensation offered is not enough to cover rebuilding costs, according to local media. Their house is the only building left standing on a road which is paved through their village. 
REUTERS/China Daily

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