Living Downtown |
Preface |
Acknowledgments |
![]() | Illustration Credits |
• | Abbreviations |
![]() | Chapter One— Conflicting Ideas about Hotel Life |
![]() | Hotel Homes and Cosmopolitan Diversity |
• | Defining the Wide Range of Hotel Life |
• | Cultural Challenges of Hotel Life |
![]() | Barriers to Understanding Hotel Living |
• | The SRO Crisis as a Subset of Today's Hotel Life |
• | Cultural Invisibility |
![]() | San Francisco's Hotels as Exemplars |
• | A Case Study City |
• | Hotel Ranks, Social Class, and the Plan of the Book |
![]() | Chapter Two— Palace Hotels and Social Opulence |
![]() | Personal Ease and Instant Social Position |
• | Convenient Luxury |
• | Wealthy Hotel Dwellers |
• | Hotel Children |
![]() | Incubators 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 |
![]() | Chapter Three— Midpriced Mansions for Middle Incomes |
![]() | Convenience for Movable Lives |
• | Immediate Places for New Job Holders |
• | Assists for Politicians and Young Couples |
• | New Household Roles for Women |
• | Self-preserving Associations |
![]() | Mansions for Rent |
• | The Classic Midpriced Hotel |
• | Links to the Tourist's and Shopper's Downtown |
![]() | Alternative Quarters |
• | Variations of the Midpriced Hotel |
• | Residence Clubs |
• | Apartment Hotels and Efficiency Units |
• | Room for Exceptions |
![]() | 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 |
• | The Mixtures of Rooming House Streets |
• | Simple Food |
• | Beyond the Edge of Propriety |
![]() | Downtown Alternatives to Rooming Houses |
• | Problems of Living with a Downtown Family |
• | Light Housekeeping Rooms |
• | Scattered Homes versus Material Correctness |
![]() | Chapter Five— Outsiders and Cheap Lodging Houses |
• | Essential Outcasts |
![]() | No-Family Houses |
• | Rooms, Cubicles, Wards, and Flops |
• | Subsidized Missions |
![]() | Zones 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 |
![]() | Chapter Six— Building a Civilization without Homes |
![]() | Owners and Managers |
• | Stratification of Owners |
• | Managers |
• | Cycles of Investment and Construction |
• | Specialization for Single Use |
• | Public Impressions and Residential Opposition |
![]() | Chapter Seven— Hotel Homes as a Public Nuisance |
• | Hotel Critics and Reform Ranks |
![]() | Concerns for the Family |
• | Undermined Domestic Roles and Rituals |
• | Individualism versus Marriage and Child Rearing |
• | Demands for Separation and Low Density |
![]() | Hazards for the Individual |
• | Sexual Immorality and Improper Recreation |
• | Pathological Proximities and Isolation |
![]() | Threats to Urban Citizenship |
• | Insufficient Materialism |
• | Mobility and Vagrancy |
• | Risks to Urban Real Estate and Biological Health |
• | 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 |
• | Working for a Single Ideal |
• | Deliberate Ignorance as a Professional Strategy |
• | Buildings as Targets and Surrogates |
![]() | Chapter Nine— Prohibition versus Pluralism |
![]() | Losing Ground: Changing Contexts, 1930–1970 |
• | New Migrations |
• | Making Room for Offices and Cars |
• | Other Changes for Hotel Tenants |
![]() | Official Prohibitions of Hotel Life, 1930–1970 |
• | Definitions of Blight as Condemnation |
• | Nonbuilding as Eradication |
• | Making Tenants Invisible |
![]() | Since 1970: Conflicts Surrounding Hotel Life |
• | The Coalescing of a Pro-SRO Movement |
• | The Legacy of Problem Hotels |
![]() | The Prospect of Pluralism in Housing |
• | Expanding the Notion of Home |
• | History, Urban Experts, and Pluralism |
Appendix— Hotel and Employment Statistics |
![]() | Notes |
• | 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 |
![]() | Bibliography |
• | Interviews |
• | Books and Articles |
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