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Historic capital : preservation, race, and real estate in Washington, D.C. Cover Image

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Historic capital : preservation, race, and real estate in Washington, D.C

Logan, Cameron 1974- (author.).

Summary: "For much of the postwar era, Washingtonians battled to make the city their own, fighting the federal government over the basic question of home rule, the right of the citys residents to govern their local affairs. Urban historian Cameron Logan examines how the historic preservation movement played an integral role in Washingtonians claiming the city as their own. Going back to the earliest days of the local historic preservation movement in the 1920s, Logan shows how Washington, D.C.s historic buildings and neighborhoods have been a site of contestation between local interests and the expansion of the federal governments footprint. He carefully analyzes the long history of fights over the right to name and define historic districts in Georgetown, Dupont Circle, and Capitol Hill and documents a series of high-profile conflicts surrounding the fate of Lafayette Square, Rhodes Tavern, and Capitol Park, SW before discussing D.C. today. Diving deep into the racial fault lines of D.C., Historic Capital also explores how the historic preservation movement affected poor and African American residents in Anacostia and the U Street and Shaw neighborhoods and changed the social and cultural fabric of the nations capital. Broadening his inquiry to the United States as a whole, Logan ultimately makes the provocative and compelling case that historic preservation has had as great an impact on the physical fabric of U.S. cities as any other private or public sector initiative in the twentieth century."--Provided by publisher

Record details

ISBN: 9780816692347
ISBN: 9780816692323
ISBN: 0816692343
ISBN: 0816692327
ISBN: 9781452958811
ISBN: 9781452955414
ISBN: 9781452955407
ISBN: 1452958815
ISBN: 1452955417
ISBN: 1452955409
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 262 pages) : illustrations
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: From "Life Inside a Monument" to Neighborhoods with Life -- 1. Value: Property, History and Homeliness in Georgetown -- 2. Taste: Architectural Complexity and Social Diversity in the 1960s -- 3. The White House and Its Neighborhood: Federal City Making and Local Preservation, 1960-1975 -- 4. Race and Resistance: Gentrification and the Critique of Historic Preservation -- 5. Whose Neighborhood? Whose History? Expanding Dupont Circle, 1975-1985 -- 6. Rhodes Tavern and the Problem with Preservation in the 1980s -- 7. Modernist Urbanism as History: Preserving the Southwest Urban Renewal Area -- Conclusion: Preservation, Profits and Loss.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.