| 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 |
| 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 |
| • | Forging Frameworks for Housing Change |
| Early Arenas of Hotel Control |
| • | Enforcement of Moral Codes |
| • | Building and Health Codes |
| • | Zoning to Control Future Growth |
| Doctrinaire Idealism and Deliberate Ignorance |
| • | Buildings as Targets and Surrogates |
| Chapter Nine— Prohibition versus Pluralism |
| Appendix— Hotel and Employment Statistics |
| Notes |
| Bibliography |
| Index |