A History of Housing in New York City.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Plunz, Richard.
Imprint:	La Vergne : Columbia University Press, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource (509 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	The Columbia history of urban life Columbia history of urban life.
Subject:	Housing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Dwellings -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Dwellings. Housing. New York (State) -- New York. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11757420

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Other authors / contributors:	Jackson, Kenneth T.
ISBN:	0231543107 9780231543101 9780231178341 0231178344 0231178352
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-430) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's ""metropolis, "" New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very rich were building palaces along Fifth Avenue; public housing for the poor originated in New York, as did government subsidies for middle-class housing. A standard in the field since its publication in 1992, A History of Housing in New York City traces New York's housing development from 1850 to.
Other form:	Print version: Plunz, Richard. A History of Housing in New York City. La Vergne : Columbia University Press, ©2016 9780231178358

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents ; List of Illustrations; Foreword, by Kenneth T. Jackson; Preface: Dwelling Type and Social Change in the American Metropolis; Acknowledgments ; 1. Early Precedents; 2. Legislating the Tenement ; 3. Rich and Poor ; 4. Beyond the Tenement ; 5. The Garden Apartment ; 6. Aesthetics and Realities ; 7. Government Intervention ; 8. Pathology of Public Housing ; 9. New Directions ; 10. Entropies and Atrophies ; Epilogue: Endgames? ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Illustration Credits; Index.

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