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Davis, Timothy Mark. "Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and the Evolution of the American Parkway," American Studies Program, University of Texas at Austin, December 1997.
The development of Mount Vernon Memorial Highway illustrates the politics of landscape production and interpretation. Changing cultural concerns influenced the ways in which the landscape between Washington and Mount Vernon was given form and meaning. Values were ascribed to specific sites and design treatments to promote selective conceptions of American history, destiny, and national identity, enfolding pragmatic concerns and broader ideological imperatives within the rhetoric of patriotism and public interest. The landscape served as a discursive space and site of cultural contestation, in which competing groups and individuals attempted to inscribe their values, their versions of history, and their social, institutional, political, and economic agendas.
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