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 |
![]() | Plain Rooms |
• | Former-house Rooming Houses |
• | Buildings Purposely Constructed as Rooming Houses |
• | YMCAs and other Organization Boardinghouses |
• | Economic Limbo |
![]() | Rooming House Districts: Diversity and Mixture |
![]() | Downtown Alternatives to Rooming Houses |
• | Scattered Homes versus Material Correctness |
![]() | 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 |