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

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Williams, Brett

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cornell paperbacks | Anthropology of contemporary issuesPublication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1988.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 157 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781501711626
1501711628

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Upscaling downtown.DDC classification:

307.3/42/09753 19

LOC classification:

HT177.W3 W55 1988

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RU 10633

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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

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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

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-153) and index.

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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 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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