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 |