The Search for Common Grounds; Shaping `The New Public Realm' From: The Washington Post | Date: October 31, 1992| Author: | Copyright 1992 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

When the editors of Progressive Architecture magazine decided to make Washington the first stop for a touring exhibition about "The New Public Realm," they perhaps did not pause to think that of all venues this city is the least likely to draw the attention of policymakers in the final stage of a presidential election campaign.

Even so, it's hard to fault the logic. Clearly, no issue is more critical to accomplishing the task of shoring up communities nationwide than to adequately define the public realm - and then to encourage it, protect it and build it. Clearly, too, the federal ...

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