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

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2006
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 34 illus.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Illustrations --   |t Preface and Acknowledgments --   |t I. Locus of the New Republic --   |t II. Seat of American Empire --   |t III The City and the Modern State --   |t Conclusion --   |t Afterword --   |t Note on Sources --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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