Living Downtown |
Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Illustration Credits |
Chapter One— Conflicting Ideas about Hotel Life |
Chapter Two— Palace Hotels and Social Opulence |
Chapter Three— Midpriced Mansions for Middle Incomes |
Chapter Four— Rooming Houses and the Margins of Respectability |
Chapter Five— Outsiders and Cheap Lodging Houses |
Chapter Six— Building a Civilization without Homes |
Chapter Seven— Hotel Homes as a Public Nuisance |
• | Hotel Critics and Reform Ranks |
Concerns for the Family |
• | Undermined Domestic Roles and Rituals |
• | Individualism versus Marriage and Child Rearing |
• | Demands for Separation and Low Density |
Hazards for the Individual |
Threats to Urban Citizenship |
• | Hotel Homes as a Public Nuisance |
Chapter Eight— From Scattered Opinion to Centralized Policy |
Chapter Nine— Prohibition versus Pluralism |
Appendix— Hotel and Employment Statistics |
Notes |
Bibliography |
Index |