The ruins that profit wrought : D.C.'s devastating developments

Author

Kester, Grant

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

New art examiner. 1989, Num. 10, Vol. 16, p. 20-25, 7 ill.

ISSN

0886-8115

Abstract (en)

Critical survey of urban renewal and development in Washington, DC in the 1980s. Argues that the design and architecture of corporate Washington attempts symbolically to resolve the class and social tensions underlying the city's economy by falsely invoking a stable and affluent past and a bright new future, while driving thousands from their neighborhoods through gentrification and ignoring the vast numbers of poor and unemployed whose only model of venture capitalism is drug dealing.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- Architecture -- United States
• Urbanism
• Architecture
• United States
• 1900-2000
• Washington, DC (USA)
• Society
• Capitalism

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- Architecture -- États-Unis
• Urbanisme
• Architecture
• Etats-Unis
• 1900-2000
• Washington, DC (USA)
• Société
• Capitalisme

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19911001-00461145

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