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Author Gillette, Howard, Jr., 1942-

Title Between justice and beauty : race, planning, and the failure of urban policy in Washington, D.C. / Howard Gillette, Jr
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description xiii, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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
Analysis Social conditions History
Washington (D.C.)
Notes "Portions of chapter 8 appeared in an earlier version as 'A national workshop for urban policy: the metropolitanization of Washington, 1946-1968,' The public historian 7, no. 1 (1985), 7-27"--T.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-287) and index
Subject City planning -- Washington (D.C.)
Urban policy -- Washington (D.C.)
SUBJECT Washington (D.C.) -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145356
Washington (D.C.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018774 -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552
Washington (D.C.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018774 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
LC no. 94045938
ISBN 080185069X