Preface / Derek Hyra and Sabiyha Prince -- Acknowledgements / Derek Hyra and Sabiyha Prince -- Introduction / Howard Gillette -- 20th century development, social inequality and change -- Exceptionalism and the national capital in late 20th c. Washington and Paris / Christopher Klemek -- Music, race, desegregation and the fight for equality in the nation's capital / Maurice Jackson -- Primed for development : Washington, D.C.'s great society transition, 1964-1974 / Bell Clement -- Home rule from below : the cooperative movement in Washington, DC / Johanna Bockman -- Struggling for housing, from D.C. to Johannesburg : Washington innercity self help goes to South Africa / Amanda Huron -- "We are headed for some bad trouble" : gentrification and displacement in Washington, D.C., 1920-2014 / Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove -- Contemporary urban and economic policy -- Situating entrepreneurial place-making in DC : business improvement districts and urban (re) development in Washington, DC / Susanna F. Schaller -- Budget growth, spending and inequality in the District of Columbia, 2002-2013 / Natwar Gandhi, Jim Spaulding and Gordon McDonald -- Bicycling in Washington, DC region : trends in ridership and policies since 1990 / Ralph Buehler and John Stowe -- Anchoring a federal agency in a Washington, D.C. community : the department of homeland security and St. Elizabeths / Margaret Cowell and Heike Mayer -- Development impacts in district neighborhoods and beyond -- Beyond gentrification : investment and abandonment on the waterfront / Brett Williams -- At eshu's crossroad : pan-African identity in a changing city / Michelle Coghill-Chatman -- "It's complicated" : long-term residents and their relationships to gentrification in Washington, DC / Kathryn Howell -- A tale of two theaters : the implications of redevelopment and gentrification on community anchors and identity in U Street/Shaw / Allison Heck -- H Street, main street and the neoliberal aesthetics of cool / Brandi Summers -- Representations of change : gentrification in the media / Gabriella Modan and Katie Wells -- Conclusion -- Contesting change and legacy : lessons from the DC story / Blair Ruble