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Upscaling Downtown : Stalled Gentrification in Washington, D.C. /
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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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1988.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Upscaling Downtown : |b Stalled Gentrification in Washington, D.C. / |c Brett Williams. |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Preface -- |t Introduction -- |t 1. Revisiting the Symbolic City -- |t 2. Reinventing the South -- |t 3. The Meaning of Home -- |t 4. The Struggle for Main Street -- |t 5. Tele-visions of Urban Life -- |t 6. The Invention of Community -- |t References -- |t Index |
| 520 | |a 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 | ||
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