President Trump could make Washington DC the greatest sustainable energy capital on Earth if he wanted to try something great and practical simultaneously. Most bureaucratically minded Presidents just want more stone buildings with conventional bureaucrat grandeur style. Maybe Donald Trump will seek to build a great glass casino in DC to compensate for it not being as large as Paris, Moscow, Berlin or London.
Washington DC, named for George Washington, was an artificially created city explicitly founded to be the capital of the United States. New York, Boston and other towns larger and older had notably different histories that made them population centers.
There are several interesting historical facts about Washington D.C. The Philadelphia Mutiny of 1783 was an event prompting the Congress meeting in Philadelphia to move to establish a permanent national capital directly. Soldiers that weren’t paid protested and hindered the congress as if they were modern protesters besieging the Homeland Security chief’s home.
In 1790 Jefferson and Hamilton made a compromise to build the capital in the nation’s south- and the location is at the northern limit of the south, with the agreement that” the federal government would pay the state’s revolutionary war debts”-ref. Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia.
Washington D.C. was built with public funds in the beginning rather than private interests as in most cities. I suppose Brasilia is comparable to Washington D.C. Neither is it the largest city in Brazil. France, Germany and the U.K. each had royal capital foundations and were not built with the consent of the governed.
The foundation of the Roman city of Lundinium could be said to have happened when Julius Caesar built a stone bridge just below the surface of the Thames river; hidden, for an easy crossing to the other side of what had been a village site. Rome was in it’s dying days as a Republic that Caesar was soon to end it after being proclaimed Emperor.
The history of Berlin is different and fascinating reading. It was the capital of the Margraviate of Bradenburg in the 13th century and continued as a cultural center to increase in size and influence.
Margraviate of Brandenburg - Wikipedia
Washington DC, named for George Washington, was an artificially created city explicitly founded to be the capital of the United States. New York, Boston and other towns larger and older had notably different histories that made them population centers.
There are several interesting historical facts about Washington D.C. The Philadelphia Mutiny of 1783 was an event prompting the Congress meeting in Philadelphia to move to establish a permanent national capital directly. Soldiers that weren’t paid protested and hindered the congress as if they were modern protesters besieging the Homeland Security chief’s home.
In 1790 Jefferson and Hamilton made a compromise to build the capital in the nation’s south- and the location is at the northern limit of the south, with the agreement that” the federal government would pay the state’s revolutionary war debts”-ref. Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia.
Washington D.C. was built with public funds in the beginning rather than private interests as in most cities. I suppose Brasilia is comparable to Washington D.C. Neither is it the largest city in Brazil. France, Germany and the U.K. each had royal capital foundations and were not built with the consent of the governed.
The foundation of the Roman city of Lundinium could be said to have happened when Julius Caesar built a stone bridge just below the surface of the Thames river; hidden, for an easy crossing to the other side of what had been a village site. Rome was in it’s dying days as a Republic that Caesar was soon to end it after being proclaimed Emperor.
The history of Berlin is different and fascinating reading. It was the capital of the Margraviate of Bradenburg in the 13th century and continued as a cultural center to increase in size and influence.
Margraviate of Brandenburg - Wikipedia
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