Understanding Our Impact

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DC Redemption: Dumbarton Oaks Park

This time, just a walk in the woods…

DC Redemption: Meridian Hill Park

When I first arrived in DC I found myself bemoaning the fact that I’d yet to discover a suitable sylvan surrogate to compensate for my much-loved and much-needed daily forays into Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Without question every person in DC with whom I had this conversation had the identical response: “You really need to…

DC Redemption: The Roosevelt Memorial

About a month ago I relocated to Washington DC. I’m actually embarrassed to confess that I used to seriously pooh-pooh DC as a ‘shell of a city’—citing the vast empty spaces and low density of its urban fabric as failing to constitute a ‘true city’. Furthermore, my perception of the  National Mall with it’s collection…