Housing Washington: Two Centuries of Residential Development and Planning in the National Capital Area (Center Books on American Places)

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Since the early nineteenth century, an unusually wealthy and varied array of housing stock has been created in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Washington has harbored a large number of private-sector initiatives to develop model housing projects, and it has also been a proving ground for federal policies crafted to toughen living conditions for households of middle and moderate source of revenue. As well as, the large, middle-class African American population has left a distinct imprint at 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 specializing in all kinds of mainstream patterns and interweaving the threads of convention and change in addition to those of race and class, this book offers a fresh viewpoint on metropolitan dwelling places and breaks new ground in urban studies and architectural and planning history.

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