Between Justice and Beauty (eBook)

Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C.

Jr. Howard Gillette (Autor)

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2011
320 Seiten
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-8122-0529-9 (ISBN)

Infos

As the only American city under direct congressional control, Washington has served historically as a testing ground for federal policy initiatives and social experimentswith decidedly mixed results. Well-intentioned efforts to introduce measures of social justice for the district's largely black population have failed. Yet federal plans and federal money have successfully created a large federal presencea triumph, argues Howard Gillette, of beauty over justice. In a new afterword, Gillette addresses the recent revitalization and the aftereffects of an urban sports arena.

Autor

Howard Gillette, Jr. is Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.6.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 34 illus.
• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: American History • American Studies • Political Science • Public Policy • urban studies
• ISBN-10: 0-8122-0529-4 / 0812205294
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-0529-9 / 9780812205299