In Upscaling Downtown, anthropologist Brett Williams provides an
ethnography of a changing urban neighborhood that she calls "Elm
Valley." Located in Washington, D.C., Elm Valley was one of the
first neighborhoods to draw middle-class property owners back to
the inner city, but a faltering housing industry halted what might
have been the rapid displacement of the poor. As a result, Elm
Valley experienced several years of stalled gentrification. It was
a period when very unlikely people lived side by side: black
families who had migrated to the nation's capital from the
Carolinas decades earlier, newly arrived refugees from Central
America and Southeast Asia, and more prosperous whites. For
Williams, a ten-year resident of Elm Valley, stalled gentrification
offered a rare opportunity to observe how people 'with varied
cultural traditions and economic resources saw and used the
neighborhood in which they lived.
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