The decorated tenement : how immigrant builders and architects transformed the slum in the Gilded Age /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Violette, Zachary J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Tenement houses > United States > History > 19th century.
Architecture and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Immigrants > Housing > United States > History > 19th century.
Architecture et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Residential.
HOUSE & HOME > Design & Construction.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Architecture and society.
Immigrants > Housing.
Tenement houses.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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