Upscaling Downtown Contributor(s): Williams, Brett (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801494192 ISBN-13: 9780801494192 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $38.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1988 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
Dewey: 307.342 |
LCCN: 87-27350 |
Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.50 lbs) 176 pages |
Themes: - Locality - Washington, D.C. - Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |