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California housing reform, stages in organization, 233 –234
California state building codes, 242 –245
California state housing acts, 198 , 243
Canterbury Hotel, San Francisco, 36 , 175
Capitol Hill district, Denver, 195
Case closets in rooming houses, 100 , 98
Casual laborers, 23 , 134 –135, 137 , 156 , 159 , 309
housing conditions at outlying work sites, 148
as predominantly white and American-born, 137
typical incomes, 308
See also Hoboes; Single workers' districts
Cave Café and Grill, San Francisco, 220
Center city, definition, xi
Central City Concern, Portland, Oregon, 288 –289
Central Hotel, San Francisco, 143 , 190 , 146 , 190
Central Pacific Hotel, San Francisco, 95 , 99
Centrality of hotel locations, 66
Centralization of housing control, 238 , 260 , 263
Chairs. See Material possessions; Room furnishings
Chandler, Raymond, 221
Cheap lodging houses. See Lodging houses headings
Chelsea district, New York, 113
Chelsea Hotel, New York, 65
Cheney, Charles, 237
Chicago, 9 , 57 –58, 300 , 139
census and housing studies, 63 , 230 –231, 258
light housekeeping rooms, 125 –126
lodging houses, 138 , 144 , 182 , 246 , 166
rooming houses, 107 , 227 , 12
Chicago Beach Hotel, Chicago, 78
Chicago hotels. See Chicago Beach Hotel; Drake Hotel; Eleanor Clubs; Grand Pacific Hotel; Hotel Warner; Hyde Park Hotel; Memorial Hotel; Sisson Hotel; Windermere Hotel
Chicago districts. See Gold Coast; Main Stem; Near North Side
Chicago School of Sociology, 207 , 226 –227
Childlessness, hotels vs. house districts, 212 –213
Children in hotels, 35 –37, 253 , 290
Chinatown, San Francisco, 156 , 275 , 152
family association buildings, 158
Chinese Americans
and cubic air ordinances, 241
as San Francisco laborers, 137 , 157 –158
CIH. See Commission on Immigration and Housing
Citizenship and rented dwellings, 201 , 223 , 227
City planning, 205 , 207 , 237 –238, 301 , 304
Civic Center district, San Francisco, 102 , 173
Claremont Hotel, Oakland, California, 81 –82, 82
and laborers' unrest in hotel districts, 227 –228
Class formation, 34 , 38 , 196 , 248 , 303
active role of palace hotel luxury, 36 –37, 51 –52
casual laborers, 132 , 164 , 167
liminal status of rooming house residents, 91 , 128 –129
material culture concerns, 162 , 202
See also Conspicuous consumption
Clayton Hotel, San Francisco, 158 –159
Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain), 31 , 35
Codes. See Building codes
Coffee shops, 73
Commercial-residential mixture. See Land use mixture
Commercial vs. domestic values, 121 , 168 , 216
Commission on Immigration and Housing, California, 235 –236
campaign for city planning and zoning, 237
more liberal hotel codes than eastern counterparts, 243
open-lot house ideal, 254
Common laborers. See Casual laborers
Conspicuous consumption, 45 –46, 48 , 50
Construction costs, 294 , 297 , 299
Construction cycles. See Building and investment cycles
Conversion of hotels to offices and hospitals, 185
Conversion of houses to hotels, 80 , 189
Coolidge, Calvin, 60
Cooperative housekeeping, 62 –64, 62 . See also Women in hotels
Cosmopolitan. See Commercial land-use mixture; Social mixture
Costs (room rental rates), 59 , 161 , 294 , 306
American plan versus European plan, 29 , 74 , 74
apartments and apartment hotels, 51 , 85 , 126
lodging houses and barracks, 141 , 148 , 151 , 142
midpriced hotels, 61 –62, 74 –75, 78
palace hotels and palace resorts, 32 , 38 , 44 , 50 , 78
recent price ranges, 292 , 299 –300
rooming houses and YMCAs, 102 , 108
tourist rates adjusted for residents, 61
See also Food
Cottage districts, 139
County relief home, San Francisco, 199
Cribs and "cage" hotels. See Lodging houses, cubicle type
Crime and lodging houses, 220
Crocker Mansion spite wall, 187
Cubic air ordinances, and Chinese, 241
Cubicle hotels. See Lodging houses, cubicle type
Cultural engineering and buildings, 262 –263
Cultural imperialism of planners, 295 , 303
Cultural landscape methods, x –xi
need and use in design and planning, 302 , 304
Cultural oppositions and hotels, 13 , 22 –23, 127 –128, 198 –199, 210 , 293
Cultural pluralism, potentials for designers, 303