Living downtown : the history of residential hotels in the United States

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780520068766
ISBN: 0520068769
ISBN: 9780585328775
ISBN: 9780520312791
ISBN: 9780520219540
ISBN: 0585328773
ISBN: 0520312791
ISBN: 0520219546
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 401 pages) : illustrations
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1994.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:november.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-386) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:	English.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.