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

Paul J. Kelsch
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Paul J. Kelsch: Washington Alexandria Architecture Center, Virginia Tech, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-20

Abstract: 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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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