Volume I Slums and Housing: History, Conditions, Policy—With Special Reference to New York City

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Volume I Slums and Housing

History, Conditions, Policy—With Special Reference to New York City

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Slums and Housing

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1936

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xix
CHAPTER I WHAT IS A SLUM? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
PART I HISTORY OF HOUSING IN NEW YORK CITY AND GENESIS OF MODERN HOUSING PRACTICE
CHAPTER II THE ORIGINS AND EARLY HISTORY OF HOUSING IN NEW YORK CITY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
CHAPTER III HOUSING PROGRESS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
CHAPTER IV THE BEGINNING OF THE TENEMENT ERA 1800-1850 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
CHAPTER V THE PERIOD OF TENEMENT-HOUSE REFORM 1850-1900 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
CHAPTER VI THE ENLARGING CONCEPT OF HOUSING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
CHAPTER VII HAS THERE BEEN PROGRESS? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
PART II CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS — CAUSES AND EFFECTS
CHAPTER VIII PHYSICAL BACKGROUND OF URBAN HOUSING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
CHAPTER IX NEW YORK COMPARED WITH OTHER CITIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
CHAPTER Χ LOCAL SURVEYS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
CHAPTER XI POPULATION AND ECONOMIC FACTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
CHAPTER XII RACIAL DISTRIBUTION AND NEGRO HOUSING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
CHAPTER XIII HOUSING CONDITIONS OF NON-FAMILY GROUPS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
CHAPTER XIV DISTRIBUTION OF MORTALITY AND DISEASE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
CHAPTER XV HOUSING AND HEALTH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
CHAPTER XVI SLUMS AND CRIME DISTRIBUTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	398
CHAPTER XVII THE EFFECTS OF BAD HOUSING IN TERMS OF CRIME AND OTHER ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	420
CHAPTER XVIII THE SOCIAL COST OF SLUMS AND INFERIOR HOUSING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
PART III SLUM PREVENTION
CHAPTER XIX CAUSATIVE FACTORS OF SLUMS AND BLIGHTED AREAS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
CHAPTER XX SLUM PREVENTION THROUGH SOCIAL CONTROL OF CAUSATIVE FACTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
CHAPTER XXI INDUSTRIAL DECENTRALIZATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	462
CHAPTER XXII THE SUBURBAN MOVEMENT AND RESIDENTIAL DECENTRALIZATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
CHAPTER XXIII CITY PLANNING IN RELATION TO SLUM PREVENTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	490
CHAPTER XXIV A SOCIAL POLICY FOR SLUM PREVENTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	502

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eBook published on:

October 1, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9780674283831

Hardcover published on:

February 5, 1936

Hardcover ISBN:

9780674280632

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Reprint 2014

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Front matter:

23

Main content:

508

Illustrations:

96

Other:

1 Frontispiz

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674283831

eBook ISBN: 9780674283831

Hardcover ISBN: 9780674280632

Keywords for this book

Housing -- New York (State) -- New York.; Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York.; New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.

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Professional and scholarly;

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