{"product_id":"upscaling-downtown-9780801421068","title":"Upscaling Downtown","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brett Williams\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - Urban\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUpscaling Downtown\u003c\/i\u003e, anthropologist Brett Williams provides an ethnography of a changing urban neighborhood that she calls \"Elm Valley.\" Located in Washington, D.C., Elm Valley was one of the first neighborhoods to draw middle-class property owners back to the inner city, but a faltering housing industry halted what might have been the rapid displacement of the poor. As a result, Elm Valley experienced several years of stalled gentrification. It was a period when very unlikely people lived side by side: black families who had migrated to the nation's capital from the Carolinas decades earlier, newly arrived refugees from Central America and Southeast Asia, and more prosperous whites. For Williams, a ten-year resident of Elm Valley, stalled gentrification offered a rare opportunity to observe how people 'with varied cultural traditions and economic resources saw and used the neighborhood in which they lived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47615236505751,"sku":"9780801421068","price":16525.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801421068.webp?v=1775099045","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/upscaling-downtown-9780801421068","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}