The new United States decided on a unique decision for its capital city. Rather than keep it in an existing location, like the way New York and Philadelphia served the government, a planned city, dedicated to the new government and the new nation became the choice.
How important a decison was this for the new nation...and the nation it became? How much of a factor was the development of the monumental (perhaps imperial) city of Washington to the growth and development of the US?
This question goes far beyhond just government,m but the symbolic effect this city has for our nation. From a power perspective, in many ways DC was a backwater and did not play a major role until the Depression and WWII. But symbolically it was always there.
How much did it matter that Washington was planned for government and became the reflection of American nationhood?> |
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