Excerpt from Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Suitland Parkway, and Baltimore-Washington Parkway: Historic Resource Study In this study of four Washington, D.C. (rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Suitland Parkway, and baltimore-washington Parkway), area parkways, a historical context has been established for these and other parkways of the United States. A stream of evolving interest in parkways, beginning with those in Westchester County New York, motivated proponents of parkways to advocate roads that fit the topography. A concurrent desire also prompted Americans to support parkways as a means of communing with nature, and escaping from urban blight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.