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Between justice and beauty : race, planning, and the failure of urban policy in Washington, D.C. /

"As the only American city under direct congressional control, Washington has served historically as a testing ground for federal policy initiatives and social experiments - with decidedly mixed results. Well-intentioned efforts to introduce measures of social justice for the district's la...

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Main Author: Gillette, Howard, Jr., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1995.
Subjects and Genres:
Urban policy > Washington (D.C.).
City planning > Washington (D.C.)
Politique urbaine > Washington (D.C.)
Urbanisme > Washington (D.C.)
City planning.
Politics and government.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Urban policy.
Stadtplanung
Ethnische Beziehungen
Urban policy > Washington (D.C.)
Washington (D.C.) > Social conditions.
Washington (D.C.) > Politics and government.
Washington (D.C.) > Race relations.
Washington (D.C.) > Conditions sociales.
Washington (D.C.) > Administration.
Washington (D.C.) > Relations raciales.
Washington (D.C.)
Washington, DC
Washington (D.C.) > City planning.
Social conditions > History
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Locus of the New Republic. 1. City of Failed Intentions. 2. The Specter of Race
  • II. Seat of American Empire. 3. Reconstruction: Social and Physical. 4. Making a Greater Washington. 5. The New Washington: City Beautiful. 6. Reform: Social and Aesthetic
  • III. The City and the Modern State. 7. A New Deal for Washington. 8. Redevelopment and Dissent. 9. Renewal, Reconstruction, and Retrenchment. 10. The Limits of Social Protest Politics.

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