Washington, D.C., According to the National Building Museum’s Senior Curator
The U.S. capital is not all political wonks and Masonic conspiracies: It’s also a highly walkable city, its diagonal avenues wide open to modern design.
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This story was published in Dwell’s December/January 2009 issue.
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Aaron Britt
Aaron writes the men’s style column “The Pocket Square” for the San Francisco Chronicle and has written for the New York Times, the Times Magazine, Newsweek, National Geographic and others.
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