Author: Richard W. Longstreth
Publisher: Center for American Places
ISBN: 9781935195078
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Since the early nineteenth century, an unusually rich and varied array of housing stock has been created in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Washington has harbored numerous private-sector initiatives to develop model housing projects, and it has also been a proving ground for federal policies crafted to improve living conditions for households of middle and moderate income. In addition, the large, middle-class African American population has left a distinct imprint on the metropolitan area’s domestic landscape, developing its own options for housing in city and suburb alike. Profusely illustrated, with thirteen chapters by fourteen esteemed authors, Housing Washington examines the storied legacy of residential development in our nation’s capital, from the early nineteenth century to the present. By focusing on a wide variety of mainstream patterns and interweaving the threads of convention and change as well as those of race and class, this book offers a fresh perspective on metropolitan dwelling places and breaks new ground in urban studies and architectural and planning history.
Housing Washington
Author: Richard W. Longstreth
Publisher: Center for American Places
ISBN: 9781935195078
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Since the early nineteenth century, an unusually rich and varied array of housing stock has been created in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Washington has harbored numerous private-sector initiatives to develop model housing projects, and it has also been a proving ground for federal policies crafted to improve living conditions for households of middle and moderate income. In addition, the large, middle-class African American population has left a distinct imprint on the metropolitan area’s domestic landscape, developing its own options for housing in city and suburb alike. Profusely illustrated, with thirteen chapters by fourteen esteemed authors, Housing Washington examines the storied legacy of residential development in our nation’s capital, from the early nineteenth century to the present. By focusing on a wide variety of mainstream patterns and interweaving the threads of convention and change as well as those of race and class, this book offers a fresh perspective on metropolitan dwelling places and breaks new ground in urban studies and architectural and planning history.
Publisher: Center for American Places
ISBN: 9781935195078
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Since the early nineteenth century, an unusually rich and varied array of housing stock has been created in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Washington has harbored numerous private-sector initiatives to develop model housing projects, and it has also been a proving ground for federal policies crafted to improve living conditions for households of middle and moderate income. In addition, the large, middle-class African American population has left a distinct imprint on the metropolitan area’s domestic landscape, developing its own options for housing in city and suburb alike. Profusely illustrated, with thirteen chapters by fourteen esteemed authors, Housing Washington examines the storied legacy of residential development in our nation’s capital, from the early nineteenth century to the present. By focusing on a wide variety of mainstream patterns and interweaving the threads of convention and change as well as those of race and class, this book offers a fresh perspective on metropolitan dwelling places and breaks new ground in urban studies and architectural and planning history.
City Tourism
Author: Robert Maitland
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845935462
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Capital city status attracts and drives tourism by enhancing a city's appeal to the tourist and its international standing. With a focus on city tourism themes, this book examines subjects including the identity of a city in a tourism context and practical matters such as promoting the city as a product. By examining tourist activities in national capitals, the book addresses issues in capital city development as tourist destinations with a broad, international approach and case studies on major tourist cities.
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845935462
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Capital city status attracts and drives tourism by enhancing a city's appeal to the tourist and its international standing. With a focus on city tourism themes, this book examines subjects including the identity of a city in a tourism context and practical matters such as promoting the city as a product. By examining tourist activities in national capitals, the book addresses issues in capital city development as tourist destinations with a broad, international approach and case studies on major tourist cities.
National Capital Area Archeological Overview and Survey Plan
Author: Barbara J. Little
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Chocolate City
Author: Chris Myers Asch
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights. Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations--from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first black-majority city, from "Chocolate City" to "Latte City--Asch and Musgrove offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights. Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations--from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first black-majority city, from "Chocolate City" to "Latte City--Asch and Musgrove offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.
Rail Rapid Transit for the National Capital Region
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
National Capital Area Bank Holding Company Amendment
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bank holding companies
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bank holding companies
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Rail Commuter Service in the National Capital Area
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Rail Commuter Service in the National Capital Area
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Transit Program for the National Capital Region
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Transit Program for the National Capital Region
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee No. 6
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description