Black in Place by Brandi Thompson Summers
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English - February 04, 2020 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsDesign Arts Society & Culture architects designers architecture anthropology design architectural history theory architectural theory urbanism Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Washington D.C.’s H Street corridor, a majority-Black neighborhood shaped by segregation and disinvestment, is now marketed as welcoming and diverse. Analyzing the role of blackness in contemporary urbanization, Brandi Thompson Summers explains why aesthetics is essential to thinking about gentrification and displacement.