Kramer, Erik Russell2014-01-032014-01-032014-01-02vt_gsexam:509http://hdl.handle.net/10919/24776Washington DC is seen as a center of politics, bureaucracy, litigation, legislation, and the trading of power and resources. For this reason outsiders are both attracted to and repelled from our city. For many of us transplants and government workers, a large portion of our collective self-image is dictated by the ebb and flow of our governing body.ETDIn CopyrightArchitectureWaterPotomacThesis