Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C.

As the only American city under direct congressional control, Washington has served historically as a testing ground for federal policy initiatives and social experiments--with decidedly mixed results. Well-intentioned efforts to introduce measures of social justice for the district's largely black population have failed. Yet federal plans and federal money have successfully created a large federal presence--a triumph, argues Howard Gillette, of beauty over justice. In a new afterword, Gillette addresses the recent revitalization and the aftereffects of an urban sports arena.

• | Author: Howard Gillette
• | Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 06, 2006
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0812219589
• | ISBN-13: 9780812219586