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 Jr.

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 320

• Publisher
• University of Pennsylvania Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780812219586

• Genres
• history

• Release date
• 2006