Upscaling Downtown : : Stalled Gentrification in Washington, D.C. / / Brett Williams.
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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1988 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Other title: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501711626 9783110536171 |
DOI: | 10.7591/9781501711626 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Brett Williams. |