Upscaling downtown : stalled gentrification in Washington, D.C. /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Brett
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1988.
Colección:Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Temas:
Urban renewal > Washington (D.C.)
Central business districts > Washington (D.C.)
Community organization > Washington (D.C.)
Rénovation urbaine > Washington (D.C.)
Centres-villes > Washington (D.C.)
Organisation communautaire > Washington (D.C.)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Central business districts
Community organization
Urban renewal
Stadtviertel
Stadtsanierung
Sozialstruktur
Washington (D.C.)
Washington, DC
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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