Waddell, Daniel Wallace McNab2015-06-232015-06-231986http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53113Why is it that when we come across a pier reaching out from a coast we have a desire to walk out on to it... Could it be because a pier gives us something special a place set apart, a place to view the world... Would it not be a wonderful thing to walk on an urban pier... past the surf of buildings... to an island of gardens... in an urban sea... to view the world a few steps closer... A place to glimpse where we are and where we could be.v, 33 leavesapplication/pdfen-USIn CopyrightLD5655.V855 1986.W332Apartment houses -- Washington (D.C.) -- Designs and plansGeorgetown (Washington, D.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Designs and plansWashington (D.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Designs and plansAn urban pierThesis