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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1988.
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Series: | Anthropology of contemporary issues.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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