Living Downtown
  Preface
  Acknowledgments
 expand sectionIllustration Credits

 collapse sectionChapter One—  Conflicting Ideas about Hotel Life
 expand sectionHotel Homes and Cosmopolitan Diversity
 collapse sectionBarriers to Understanding Hotel Living
 •The SRO Crisis as a Subset of Today's Hotel Life
 •Cultural Invisibility
 expand sectionSan Francisco's Hotels as Exemplars
 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
 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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