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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Berkeley :
University of California Press
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8306181 |
Sumário:
- Conflicting Ideas about Hotel Life
- Palace Hotels and Social Opulence
- Midpriced Mansions for Middle Incomes
- Rooming Houses and the Margins of Respectability
- Outsiders and Cheap Lodging Houses
- Building a Civilization without Homes
- Hotel Homes as a Public Nuisance
- From Scattered Opinion to Centralized Policy
- Prohibition versus Pluralism.