Living Downtown

  Preface
  Acknowledgments
 expand sectionIllustration Credits

 expand sectionChapter One—  Conflicting Ideas about Hotel Life
 collapse sectionChapter Two—  Palace Hotels and Social Opulence
 expand sectionPersonal Ease and Instant Social Position
 expand sectionIncubators for a Mobile High Society
 Conversion Experiences for the New City
 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
 expand sectionChapter Seven—  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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