Living Downtown

  Preface
  Acknowledgments
 expand sectionIllustration Credits

 expand sectionChapter One—  Conflicting Ideas about Hotel Life
 expand sectionChapter Two—  Palace Hotels and Social Opulence
 expand sectionChapter Three—  Midpriced Mansions for Middle Incomes
 expand sectionChapter Four—  Rooming Houses and the Margins of Respectability
 expand sectionChapter Five—  Outsiders and Cheap Lodging Houses
 expand sectionChapter Six—  Building a Civilization without Homes
 collapse sectionChapter Seven—  Hotel Homes as a Public Nuisance
 Hotel Critics and Reform Ranks
 collapse sectionConcerns for the Family
 Undermined Domestic Roles and Rituals
 Individualism versus Marriage and Child Rearing
 Demands for Separation and Low Density
 expand sectionHazards for the Individual
 expand sectionThreats to Urban Citizenship
 Hotel Homes as a Public Nuisance
 expand sectionChapter Eight—  From Scattered Opinion to Centralized Policy
 expand sectionChapter Nine—  Prohibition versus Pluralism

  Appendix—  Hotel and Employment Statistics
 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionBibliography
 expand sectionIndex

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