You can take a gander at other views of the plan here, although you might be surprised at who owns them. His explanatory drawings and diagrams offer dead-on critiques of the City Beautiful and Modernist planning that have turned central DC into a lifeless pile of stuttering architectural gigantism.
The Future Was Classical
While I finish writing the Forest Glen essay, please enjoy this alternative scheme to the Mc Millan Commission “Kite” Plan, rendered by arch-traditionalist genius/maniac Leon Krier in 1985.
Krier is amazing and terrifying. Did you see idea for the WTC site in “City Journal”? It should serve as a warning to others.
I haven’t, but could it be much more of a warning than the results of the current design will be? That project will be a lesson in every practice and management class.
I heard him talking about how September 11th signaled the end of tall buildings, due to security risk, but it seems both inapt and inappropriate now.