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Viewing the Landscape of the George Washington Memorial Parkway: A Cultural History of Scenic Resources and Landscape Ideology

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Paul J. Kelsch
Washington Alexandria Architecture Center, Virginia Tech, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA
Land 2022, 11(8), 1190; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081190
Submission received: 22 June 2022 / Revised: 12 July 2022 / Accepted: 15 July 2022 / Published: 29 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from Visual Resource Stewardship Conferences 2019 and 2021)
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This paper investigates several views along the George Washington Memorial Parkway, which runs along the Potomac River between Washington, DC, and George Washington’s home, Mount Vernon. It focuses on the role these views have had in transforming the banks of the Potomac into a landscape, and it compares them to a set of landscape paintings that reveal complexities in the ideology of landscape. These dimensions of landscape ideology are used to interpret the parkway as a landscape, a projection of certain values on the land. The paper concludes with a discussion of the values of this approach for the stewardship of visual resources.
Keywords: landscape ideology; views; Mount Vernon Memorial Highway; Potomac River; landscape painting; visual resource stewardship landscape ideology; views; Mount Vernon Memorial Highway; Potomac River; landscape painting; visual resource stewardship

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Kelsch, P.J. Viewing the Landscape of the George Washington Memorial Parkway: A Cultural History of Scenic Resources and Landscape Ideology. Land 2022, 11, 1190. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081190

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Kelsch PJ. Viewing the Landscape of the George Washington Memorial Parkway: A Cultural History of Scenic Resources and Landscape Ideology. Land. 2022; 11(8):1190. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081190

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Kelsch, Paul J. 2022. "Viewing the Landscape of the George Washington Memorial Parkway: A Cultural History of Scenic Resources and Landscape Ideology" Land 11, no. 8: 1190. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081190

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Kelsch, P. J. (2022). Viewing the Landscape of the George Washington Memorial Parkway: A Cultural History of Scenic Resources and Landscape Ideology. Land, 11(8), 1190. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081190

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