| 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 |
| Convenience for Movable Lives |
| Mansions for Rent |
| • | The Classic Midpriced Hotel |
| • | Links to the Tourist's and Shopper's Downtown |
| Alternative Quarters |
| • | Room for Exceptions |
| 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 |