The Upscaling Downtown : Stalled Gentrification in Washington, D.C. PDF
by Brett Williams
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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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- Publisher:Cornell University Press
- Publication Date:31/05/2018
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Cornell University Press
- Publication Date:31/05/2018
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- ISBN:9781501711626
