Main entry:

Logan, Cameron, 1974- author.

Title & Author:

Historic capital : preservation, race, and real estate in Washington, D.C. / Cameron Logan.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Description:

xxvii, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Machine generated contents note: Contents Introduction: From "Life Inside a Monument" to Neighborhoods with Life 1. Value: Property, History and Homeliness in Georgetown 2. Taste: Architectural Complexity and Social Diversity in the 1960s 3. The White House and Its Neighborhood: Federal City Making and Local Preservation, 1960-1975 4. Race and Resistance: Gentrification and the Critique of Historic Preservation 5. Whose Neighborhood? Whose History? Expanding Dupont Circle, 1975-1985 6. Rhodes Tavern and the Problem with Preservation in the 1980s 7. Modernist Urbanism as History: Preserving the Southwest Urban Renewal Area Conclusion: Preservation, Profits and Loss Acknowledgments Notes Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: From "Life Inside a Monument" to living in historic neighborhoods -- Value: Property, History and Homeliness in Georgetown -- Taste: Architectural Complexity and Social Diversity in the 1960s -- The White House and Its Neighborhood: Federal City Making and Local Preservation, 1960-1975 -- Race and Resistance: Gentrification and the Critique of Historic Preservation -- Whose Neighborhood? Whose History? Expanding Dupont Circle, 1975-1985 -- Rhodes Tavern and the Problem with Preservation in the 1980s -- Modernist Urbanism as History: Preserving the Southwest Urban Renewal Area -- Conclusion: Preservation, Profits and Loss.

Summary:

For much of the postwar era, Washingtonians battled to make the city their own, fighting the federal government over the basic question of home rule, the right of the citys residents to govern their local affairs. Urban historian Cameron Logan examines how the historic preservation movement played an integral role in Washingtonians claiming the city as their own. Going back to the earliest days of the local historic preservation movement in the 1920s, Logan shows how Washington, D.C.s historic buildings and neighborhoods have been a site of contestation between local interests and the expansion of the federal governments footprint. He carefully analyzes the long history of fights over the right to name and define historic districts in Georgetown, Dupont Circle, and Capitol Hill and documents a series of high-profile conflicts surrounding the fate of Lafayette Square, Rhodes Tavern, and Capitol Park, SW before discussing D.C. today. Diving deep into the racial fault lines of D.C., Historic Capital also explores how the historic preservation movement affected poor and African American residents in Anacostia and the U Street and Shaw neighborhoods and changed the social and cultural fabric of the nations capital. Broadening his inquiry to the United States as a whole, Logan ultimately makes the provocative and compelling case that historic preservation has had as great an impact on the physical fabric of U.S. cities as any other private or public sector initiative in the twentieth century.

ISBN:

9780816692347 paperback
0816692343 paperback
9780816692323 hardcover
0816692327 hardcover
electronic book
9781452955407
1452955409

Subject:

City planning Social aspects Washington (D.C.)
Historic preservation Social aspects Washington (D.C.)
Federal-city relations Washington (D.C.)
Land use Social aspects Washington (D.C.)
Préservation historique Aspect social Washington (D.C.)
Relations fédérales-municipales Washington (D.C.)
Utilisation du sol Aspect social Washington (D.C.)
ARCHITECTURE History Contemporary (1945- )
SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology Urban.
ARCHITECTURE Urban & Land Use Planning.
City planning Social aspects.
Federal-city relations.
Historic preservation Social aspects.
Land use Social aspects.
Washington (D.C.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298347
Call No.: BIB 244619
Status: Available