Living Downtown
  Preface
  Acknowledgments
 collapse sectionIllustration Credits
 •Abbreviations

 collapse sectionChapter One—  Conflicting Ideas about Hotel Life
 collapse sectionHotel Homes and Cosmopolitan Diversity
 •Defining the Wide Range of Hotel Life
 •Cultural Challenges of Hotel Life
 collapse sectionBarriers to Understanding Hotel Living
 •The SRO Crisis as a Subset of Today's Hotel Life
 •Cultural Invisibility
 collapse sectionSan Francisco's Hotels as Exemplars
 •A Case Study City
 •Hotel Ranks, Social Class, and the Plan of the Book
 collapse sectionChapter Two—  Palace Hotels and Social Opulence
 collapse sectionPersonal Ease and Instant Social Position
 •Convenient Luxury
 •Wealthy Hotel Dwellers
 •Hotel Children
 collapse sectionIncubators 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
 collapse sectionChapter Three—  Midpriced Mansions for Middle Incomes
 collapse sectionConvenience for Movable Lives
 •Immediate Places for New Job Holders
 •Assists for Politicians and Young Couples
 •New Household Roles for Women
 •Self-preserving Associations
 collapse sectionMansions for Rent
 •The Classic Midpriced Hotel
 •Links to the Tourist's and Shopper's Downtown
 collapse sectionAlternative Quarters
 •Variations of the Midpriced Hotel
 •Residence Clubs
 •Apartment Hotels and Efficiency Units
 •Room for Exceptions
 collapse sectionChapter Four—  Rooming Houses and the Margins of Respectability
 collapse sectionPlain Rooms
 •Former-house Rooming Houses
 •Buildings Purposely Constructed as Rooming Houses
 •YMCAs and other Organization Boardinghouses
 •Economic Limbo
 collapse sectionRooming House Districts:  Diversity and Mixture
 •The Mixtures of Rooming House Streets
 •Simple Food
 •Beyond the Edge of Propriety
 collapse sectionDowntown Alternatives to Rooming Houses
 •Problems of Living with a Downtown Family
 •Light Housekeeping Rooms
 •Scattered Homes versus Material Correctness
 collapse sectionChapter Five—  Outsiders and Cheap Lodging Houses
 •Essential Outcasts
 collapse sectionNo-Family Houses
 •Rooms, Cubicles, Wards, and Flops
 •Subsidized Missions
 collapse sectionZones for Single Laborers:  Skid Row and Chinatown
 •The Migrant Workers' South of Market
 •Racial Rooming House Districts:  The Chinatown Example
 •Rationales for Lodging House Life
 •Fronts for Embarrassing Economic Realities
 collapse sectionChapter Six—  Building a Civilization without Homes
 collapse sectionOwners and Managers
 •Stratification of Owners
 •Managers
 •Cycles of Investment and Construction
 •Specialization for Single Use
 •Public Impressions and Residential Opposition
 collapse sectionChapter Seven—  Hotel Homes as a Public Nuisance
 •Hotel Critics and Reform Ranks
 collapse sectionConcerns for the Family
 •Undermined Domestic Roles and Rituals
 •Individualism versus Marriage and Child Rearing
 •Demands for Separation and Low Density
 collapse sectionHazards for the Individual
 •Sexual Immorality and Improper Recreation
 •Pathological Proximities and Isolation
 collapse sectionThreats to Urban Citizenship
 •Insufficient Materialism
 •Mobility and Vagrancy
 •Risks to Urban Real Estate and Biological Health
 •Hotel Homes as a Public Nuisance
 collapse sectionChapter Eight—  From Scattered Opinion to Centralized Policy
 •Forging Frameworks for Housing Change
 collapse sectionEarly Arenas of Hotel Control
 •Enforcement of Moral Codes
 •Building and Health Codes
 •Zoning to Control Future Growth
 collapse sectionDoctrinaire Idealism and Deliberate Ignorance
 •Working for a Single Ideal
 •Deliberate Ignorance as a Professional Strategy
 •Buildings as Targets and Surrogates
 collapse sectionChapter Nine—  Prohibition versus Pluralism
 collapse sectionLosing Ground:  Changing Contexts, 1930–1970
 •New Migrations
 •Making Room for Offices and Cars
 •Other Changes for Hotel Tenants
 collapse sectionOfficial Prohibitions of Hotel Life, 1930–1970
 •Definitions of Blight as Condemnation
 •Nonbuilding as Eradication
 •Making Tenants Invisible
 collapse sectionSince 1970:  Conflicts Surrounding Hotel Life
 •The Coalescing of a Pro-SRO Movement
 •The Legacy of Problem Hotels
 collapse sectionThe Prospect of Pluralism in Housing
 •Expanding the Notion of Home
 •History, Urban Experts, and Pluralism

  Appendix—  Hotel and Employment Statistics
 collapse sectionNotes
 •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
 •Chapter Eight— From Scattered Opinion to Centralized Policy
 •Chapter Nine— Prohibition versus Pluralism
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 •Interviews
 •Books and Articles
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