Between Justice and Beauty : : Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C. / / Howard Gillette.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Gillette, Howard,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 34 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; I. Locus of the New Republic --; II. Seat of American Empire --; III The City and the Modern State --; Conclusion --; Afterword --; Note on Sources --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780812205299; 9783110638721; 9783110413496; 9783110413458; 9783110459548
• DOI: 10.9783/9780812205299
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Howard Gillette.

As the only American city under direct congressional control, Washington has served historically as a testing ground for federal policy initiatives and social experiments-with decidedly mixed results. Well-intentioned efforts to introduce measures of social justice for the district's largely black population have failed. Yet federal plans and federal money have successfully created a large federal presence-a triumph, argues Howard Gillette, of beauty over justice. In a new afterword, Gillette addresses the recent revitalization and the aftereffects of an urban sports arena.