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Article: An Alley That Turns a Corner In Urban Design; In Georgetown, Planners Break Free of History's Grip
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 7, 2004
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Cady's Alley, one might think, is an improbable place to search
for signs of healthy change in Washington architecture.
It is but an alley, after all. A secondary road, a service entry
for the buildings with their fine facades on the street. And it is in
conservative Georgetown, where architectural change has been frowned
upon for generations.
Nonetheless, there it is. The block-long alley south of M Street
between 33rd and 34th streets NW, formerly a wasteland friendlier to
rats than humans, has been transformed into a sophisticated, lively
urban lane.
In this building boom of a city, where every day seems to bring a
new construction start in a historic neighborhood, what has been done
in ...