Housing Washington: Two Centuries of Residential Development and Planning in the National Capital Area (Center Books on American Places)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Since the early nineteenth century, an unusually rich and varied array of housing stock has been created in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Washington has harbored numerous private-sector initiatives to develop model housing projects, and it has also been a proving ground for federal policies crafted to improve living conditions for households of middle and moderate income. In addition, the large, middle-class African American population has left a distinct imprint on the metropolitan area’s domestic landscape, developing its own options for housing in city and suburb alike.P...
ISBN(s)
1935195077, 9781935195078
