Housing Washington: Two Centuries of Residential Development and Planning in the National Capitol Area

By: Richard Longstreth

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935195077
• ISBN13: 9781935195078
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Center for American Places
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"