Upscaling downtown : stalled gentrification in Washington, D.C. /

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Author / Creator:Williams, Brett.
Imprint:Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1988.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 157 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Anthropology of contemporary issues
Cornell paperbacks
Anthropology of contemporary issues.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675651
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ISBN:0801494192
9780801494192
0801421063
9780801421068
9781501711626
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-153) and 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.
Other form:Print version: Williams, Brett. Upscaling downtown. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1988