Kennedy-era Washington DC Metro-Center — Land Use 1960 — NCPC — NCRPC 1961 map

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SKU: P-7-028556

'Land Use 1960 — Metro-Center'


Kennedy-era Washington is laid out in bold flat colour on this 1961 map of land use in the capital's core, the 'Metro-Center' between the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. Red commercial districts, brick-red public offices, blue institutions and yellow housing press around the olive-green National Mall, while pink hatching marks industrial land along the rivers and railways. Drawn for A Policies Plan for the Year 2000, it records the city as it stood in 1960, before Metro and the freeway battles of the following decade changed downtown, and it pairs naturally with the planners' Land Use 2000 map of the same area. Offered with its facing key and introduction as two separate sheets from the original spiral-bound report, each about 25 × 25 cm.

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Size 25 x 25 cm | 10.0 x 10.0 inches

Date Published: May 1961

Type: Vintage urban planning map and legend with printed colour on two separate sheets, with original binding perforations

Author: National Capital Planning Commission

National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) and National Capital Regional Planning Council (NCRPC), joint planning authors and issuing bodies; individual draughtsman not identified.

Publication: A Policies Plan for the Year 2000—The Nation's Capital

A Policies Plan for the Year 2000: The Nation's Capital. Prepared and issued by the National Capital Planning Commission and National Capital Regional Planning Council, Washington, D.C., May 1961

Condition: Good |

Good; suitable for framing. Original binding perforations along the inner edges of both sheets. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. A transit/freeway diagram (p.61) is printed on the reverse of the key sheet (p.62); policy text and an employment graph (p.64) are printed on the reverse of the map (p.63).

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