Living Downtown |
Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Illustration Credits |
Chapter One— Conflicting Ideas about Hotel Life |
Chapter Two— Palace Hotels and Social Opulence |
Personal Ease and Instant Social Position |
Incubators for a Mobile High Society |
• | Early Developments: The First-Class Hotel |
• | Palace Hotels |
• | Cycles of Life at Palace Hotels |
• | Apartment Alternatives |
• | Conversion Experiences for the New City |
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 |
Chapter Eight— From Scattered Opinion to Centralized Policy |
Chapter Nine— Prohibition versus Pluralism |
Appendix— Hotel and Employment Statistics |
Notes |
Bibliography |
Index |