| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 157 pages) : illustrations |
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Anthropology of contemporary issues |
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Cornell paperbacks |
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Anthropology of contemporary issues.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Central business districts Washington (D.C.) |
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Community organization Washington (D.C.) |
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Urban renewal Washington (D.C.) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-153) and index |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Urban renewal -- Washington (D.C.)
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Central business districts -- Washington (D.C.)
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Community organization -- Washington (D.C.)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Central business districts
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Community organization
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Urban renewal
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Stadtviertel
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Stadtsanierung
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Sozialstruktur
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Washington (D.C.)
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Washington, DC
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501711626 |
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1501711628 |
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