Living downtown : the history of residential hotels in the United States /
From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residen...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1994.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8306181 |
| Summary: | From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of li. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource (xxii, 401 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-386) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585328773 9780585328775 0520219546 9780520219540 9780520312791 0520312791 0520068769 9780520068766 |