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Photograph: Washington DC. Old housing making way for new; and Mercedes Benz billboards.

>Washington DC is constantly changing: something is going down, something is going up.
In the 1960s and 1970s, mostly it was stuff going down – since the early 1980s the
place has been rebuilding and "gentrifying" much to many a persons chagrin. But it sure
beats the wastelands of crime and dispair that once reigned over a great deal
of the city. (Not to avoid the obvious : a lot of that crime is still present,
and the lousy conditions exist yet in many places.)

Washington DC in transition. Photograph of Washington DC from early 2008.

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