Would that be I give you three guesses and the first two don't count.
Leaving the architecture out of it, the Champs de Mars is clearly
better maintained to my uneducated eye as far as sod. But it
doesn't get the level of foot traffic that the Mall does.
Having been both places on foot and bicycle, and taking into
account that both are roughly comparable large urban green
spaces (the Mall is much larger) I'd pick the Champs overall if
only for the better trees. Constitution Gardens (the west end of
the Mall between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln
Memorial) is much nicer than the part between the Capitol and
the Monument.
We SHOUD fix the Tidal basin and the DC World War I
memorial for sure.
On the other hand if you consider the Pont d'lena and the
Trocadero part of the same composition the edge swings to
Paris, IMHO. The Smithsonian is just a mishmash of style
as far as architecture, again IMHO, not totally unpleasing but
not exactly a unified whole.
You can sod all you like but that's the high traffic zone, OK?
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