Upscaling Downtown : Stalled Gentrification in Washington, D.C. / Brett Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Brett, author.

Series:

Cornell paperbacks.

The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community organization--Washington (D.C.).

Community organization.

Central business districts--Washington (D.C.).

Central business districts.

Urban renewal--Washington (D.C.).

Urban renewal.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 157 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Upscaling Downtown, anthropologist Brett Williams provides an ethnography of a changing urban neighborhood that she calls "Elm Valley." Located in Washington, D.C., Elm Valley was one of the first neighborhoods to draw middle-class property owners back to the inner city, but a faltering housing industry halted what might have been the rapid displacement of the poor. As a result, Elm Valley experienced several years of stalled gentrification. It was a period when very unlikely people lived side by side: black families who had migrated to the nation's capital from the Carolinas decades earlier, newly arrived refugees from Central America and Southeast Asia, and more prosperous whites. For Williams, a ten-year resident of Elm Valley, stalled gentrification offered a rare opportunity to observe how people 'with varied cultural traditions and economic resources saw and used the neighborhood in which they lived.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Revisiting the Symbolic City

2. Reinventing the South

3. The Meaning of Home

4. The Struggle for Main Street

5. Tele-visions of Urban Life

6. The Invention of Community

References

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 145-153.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9781501711626

1501711628

OCLC:

1080552101