Upscaling downtown : stalled gentrification in Washington, D.C. /
Author / Creator: | Williams, Brett. |
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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 |
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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 157 pages) : illustrations. |
Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-153) and index. |
ISBN: | 0801494192 9780801494192 0801421063 9780801421068 9781501711626 1501711628 |