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 |
Doctrinaire Idealism and Deliberate Ignorance |
• | Working for a Single Ideal |
• | Deliberate Ignorance as a Professional Strategy |
• | Buildings as Targets and Surrogates |
Chapter Nine— Prohibition versus Pluralism |
Appendix— Hotel and Employment Statistics |
Notes |
Bibliography |
Index |