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Digital Project Proposal History of Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park _________________________________________________ |
Endnotes
(1) A "public park" has cultural-spatial, as well as political-property based dimensions. The cultural dimension of "public", the people who claim access to the unrestricted space, sometimes conflict with the political and property based definitions. (See: Roy Rosenzweig/Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People, A History of Central Park, Ithaca and London 1992, p.6). In the case of Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park, the federal government, owning the public land, had a different definition of public than the "cultural public", who used the park.
(2) See: Barry Wellman/Milena Gulia, Virtual Communities as Communities.
(3) See: Edward L. Ayers, The Pasts and Futures of Digital History, 1999 (http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/PastsFutures.html)
(4) Thanks to Rob Townsend for pointing this out. See: Robert Darnton, "An Early Information Sociaty: News and Media in Eighteenth Century Paris." AHR, February 2000, available online via the History Cooperative.
Literature (print):
Roy Rosenzweig/Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People, A History of Central Park, Ithaca and London 1992.
National Park Service - National Capital Region, Meridian Hill Park. Cultural Landscape Report. Final Draft, Washington, DC and Ann Arbor, MI 1999. (CLP)
"The Autobiography of Malcom X Park", in: City Paper Nov. 24, 1989, pp. 16-24.
Washington Renaissance. Architecture and Landscape of Meridian Hill, Washington, DC 1989.
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