Full Description
Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington, DC uncovers and explains the dynamics that have influenced the contemporary economic advancement of Washington, DC. This volume's unique interdisciplinary approach using historical, sociological, anthropological, economic, geographic, political, and linguistic theories and approaches, captures the comprehensive factors related to changes taking place in one of the world's most important cities.
Capital Dilemma clarifies how preexisting urban social hierarchies, established mainly along race and class lines but also along national and local interests, are linked with the city's contemporary inequitable growth. While accounting for historic disparities, this book reveals how more recent federal and city political decisions and circumstances shape contemporary neighborhood gentrification patterns, highlighting the layered complexities of the modern national capital and connecting these considerations to Washington, DC's past as well as to more recent policy choices.
As we enter a period where advanced service sector cities prosper, Washington, DC's changing landscape illustrates important processes and outcomes critical to other US cities and national capitals throughout the world. The Capital Dilemma for DC, and other major cities, is how to produce sustainable equitable economic growth. This volume expands our understanding of the contradictions, challenges and opportunities associated with contemporary urban development.
Contents
Section One: The Historical, Political and Economic Contexts of Urban Shifts Chapter 1: Private Revitalization and Gentrification in Twentieth Century Washington, DC Chapter 2: How Government Policy affects Inequality: An Analysis of Inequality in Washington, DC, through Census Data, 1960-2010 Chapter 3: Situating Entrepreneurial Place-making in DC: Business Improvement Districts and Urban (Re) Development in Washington, DC Chapter 4: Demolishing Barry Farm: Ideology, Policy and the Emergence and Dissolution of a Racialized Urban Ghetto in Washington, DC Chapter 5: Representations of Change Chapter 6: Anchoring a Federal Agency in a Washington DC Community: The Department of Homeland Security Chapter 7: The Implementation of the Model Cities Program in Washington, DC Chapter 8: Exceptionalism and the National Capital in late 20th c. Washington and Paris Chapter 9: The New Urban Renewal: Gentrification and the Politics of Displacement in Washington, DC Chapter 10: Federal Spending Fuels the Washington Region's New Economy Chapter 11: Budget Growth in the District, 1999- 2013 Section Two: The Grassroots Impacts of Urban Shifts Chapter 12: Trends and Determinants of Bicycling in Washington DC Chapter 13: Seeking Elegba at the Crossroads: Pan-African Identity in a Changing City Chapter 14: A Tale of Two Theaters: The Implications of Redevelopment and Gentrification on Community Anchors and Identity in U Street/Shaw Chapter 15: Changing Neighborhoods, Changing Communities: Managed Redevelopment in Columbia Heights Chapter 16: Tenants Take Over Connecting DC to Johannesburg: Washington InnerCity Self Help Goes to South Africa Chapter 17: On the Waterfront
