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

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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Williams, Brett,
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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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

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