Recent scholarship provides evidence for reconsidering the original urban plan for Washington, DC, one of the world’s few planned cities. Commissioned by President George Washington in 1791, Pierre L’Enfant did not, as some scholarship claims, simply follow baroque urban design concepts with associated geometric patterns for his design. Rather, the character of the land guided the location of public squares, each for a state with a “reciprocity of sight” along communicating avenues. L’Enfant conceived of these individual but visually linked state districts as a metaphor that demonstrated a new nation’s ideals of independence and unity in built form.

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建立隐喻

最近的奖学金提供了重新考虑华盛顿特区的原始城市计划的证据，华盛顿特区是世界上少数几个规划城市之一。Pierre L'Enfant由乔治华盛顿总统于1791年委托，他不像某些奖学金所声称的那样，仅遵循巴洛克式的城市设计概念以及相关的几何图案进行设计。相反，土地的特性决定了公共广场的位置，每个广场都是沿着交流的道路具有“视觉互惠性”的州。莱芬特（L'Enfant）将这些独立但在视觉上联系起来的州区视为一个隐喻，以建筑形式展现了新国家的独立和统一理想。