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the infrastructural district

[At the Washington Post, photographer David Deal steps inside, above, and beneath the District of Columbia's infrastructure and other hidden spaces -- the "Third Street Tunnel blower room", pictured above; Blue Plains settlement ponds in Southwest; the specimen room at the Natural History Museum; the Hecht Company warehouse on New York Avenue; and so on.]

paris on the anacostia

A New Urbanist (edit: see comments for update) proposal to channelize the Anacostia and extend a modified version of the L’Enfant Plan to its newly narrowed banks, summarized here, is attracting a bit of attention here in DC (also here, here, and here).
1As commentator “Capitol Dome” notes at Greater Greater Washington, the plan proposes [...]