The Decorated Tenement : How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age /

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Autor principal: Violette, Zachary J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tenement houses.
Immigrants > Housing.
Architecture and society.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
HOUSE & HOME > Design & Construction.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Residential.
Architecture et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Immigrants > Housing > United States > History > 19th century.
Architecture and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Tenement houses > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : situating the decorated tenement
  • Dens, rookeries, and hovels : the slum landscape and stereotype
  • The better sort of tenement : competing notions of improvement and living standards
  • Fantastic shapes and unfamiliar profiles : why the tenement façade matters
  • Skin builders and plan mills : the tenement business as immigrant enterprise
  • Destroying the rookeries : how the tenement was designed and built
  • A new style of poverty : understanding working-class taste and material culture
  • A heartless irony : cultural conflict and the tenement reform movement
  • Epilogue : the afterlife of the decorated tenement.

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