Upscaling Downtown : : Stalled Gentrification in Washington, D.C. / / Brett Williams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Williams, Brett,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

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.

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