Washington D.C. was designed by three men: Pierre L'Enfant, Andrew Ellicott, and Benjamin Banneker. L'Enfant drew the initial design, Ellicott revised it, and with Banneker's help, did the surveying.

View L'Enfant's original plan: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/L%27Enfant_plan.jpg

An 1862 view of the city: http://www.history-map.com/picture/002/pictures/Washington-DC.jpg

View a modern D.C. map here: http://campus.udayton.edu/~udic/photogallery/Washington_DC

Neat interactive map: http://mappery.com/map-of/Washington-DC-Tourist-Map

If YOU were in charge of designing the nation's capital, how would you draw it?

Your task:

• draw a map of your capital
• you can use the D.C. location or choose your own location 
• Must-have buildings:
• president's house, Capitol building, Supreme Court building, Treasury, U.S. Mint, Dept. of Defense, State Dept., Justice Dept., Pentagon
• Other things to make your city functional and nice:
• parks, museums, monuments, lakes? rivers? canals?, etc.
• roads, subway?, train station, airport, etc.
• business district, shopping district, entertainment district, etc.
• we'll vote on the best designs!