Historic capital : preservation, race, and real estate in Washington, D.C. / Cameron Logan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Logan, Cameron, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Social aspects--Washington (D.C.).

City planning.

City planning--Social aspects.

Land use--Social aspects.

Land use.

Federal-city relations.

Historic preservation--Social aspects.

Historic preservation.

Washington (D.C.).

Historic preservation--Social aspects--Washington (D.C.).

Federal-city relations--Washington (D.C.).

Land use--Social aspects--Washington (D.C.).

Physical Description:

xxvii, 262 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Summary:

For much of the postwar era, Washingtonians battled to make the city their own, fighting the federal government over the basic question of home rule, the right of the citys residents to govern their local affairs. Urban historian Cameron Logan examines how the historic preservation movement played an integral role in Washingtonians claiming the city as their own. Going back to the earliest days of the local historic preservation movement in the 1920s, Logan shows how Washington, D.C.s historic buildings and neighborhoods have been a site of contestation between local interests and the expansion of the federal governments footprint. He carefully analyzes the long history of fights over the right to name and define historic districts in Georgetown, Dupont Circle, and Capitol Hill and documents a series of high-profile conflicts surrounding the fate of Lafayette Square, Rhodes Tavern, and Capitol Park, SW before discussing D.C. today. Diving deep into the racial fault lines of D.C., Historic Capital also explores how the historic preservation movement affected poor and African American residents in Anacostia and the U Street and Shaw neighborhoods and changed the social and cultural fabric of the nations capital. Broadening his inquiry to the United States as a whole, Logan ultimately makes the provocative and compelling case that historic preservation has had as great an impact on the physical fabric of U.S. cities as any other private or public sector initiative in the twentieth century.

Contents:

1 Value: Property, History, and Homeliness in Georgetown 1

2 Taste: Architectural Complexity and Social Diversity in the 1960s 37

3 The White House and Its Neighborhood: Federal City Making and Local Preservation, 1960-1975 67

4 Race and Resistance: Gentrification and the Critique of Historic Preservation 97

5 Whose Neighborhood? Whose History?: Expanding Dupont Circle, 1975-1985 125

6 Rhodes Tavern and the Problem with Preservation in the 1980s 153

7 Modernist Urbanism as History: Preserving the Southwest Urban Renewal Area 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Contents Introduction: From "Life Inside a Monument" to Neighborhoods with Life 1. Value: Property, History and Homeliness in Georgetown 2. Taste: Architectural Complexity and Social Diversity in the 1960s 3. The White House and Its Neighborhood: Federal City Making and Local Preservation, 1960-1975 4. Race and Resistance: Gentrification and the Critique of Historic Preservation 5. Whose Neighborhood? Whose History? Expanding Dupont Circle, 1975-1985 6. Rhodes Tavern and the Problem with Preservation in the 1980s 7. Modernist Urbanism as History: Preserving the Southwest Urban Renewal Area Conclusion: Preservation, Profits and Loss Acknowledgments Notes Index.

ISBN:

9780816692347

0816692343

9780816692323

0816692327

OCLC:

982091648