Abstract
Almost 100 years after the McMillan Plan, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), the federal government's central planning agency in Washington, DC, released its long-range vision plan to guide development of Washington's monumental core. The resulting document, Extending the Legacy: Planning America's Capital for the 21st Century (NCPC, 1997), builds on the great planning traditions of the McMillan Plan and its predecessor, the L'Enfant Plan of 1791. The Commission has called it “the third act in Washington's planning drama.” As did its predecessors, Extending the Legacy expresses the national aspirations and ideologies of its time. This essay compares the values expressed in the McMillan Plan to those in Extending the Legacy.
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