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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