Main entry:

Groth, Paul Erling.

Title & Author:

Living downtown : the history of residential hotels in the United States / Paul Groth.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.

Description:

xxii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-386) and index.
1. Conflicting Ideas About Hotel Life. Hotel Homes and Cosmopolitan Diversity. Barriers to Understanding Hotel Living. San Francisco's Hotels as Exemplars -- 2. Palace Hotels and Social Opulence. Personal Ease and Instant Social Position. Incubators for a Mobile High Society. Conversion Experiences for the New City -- 3. Midpriced Mansions for Middle Incomes. Convenience for Movable Lives. Mansions for Rent. Alternative Quarters. Room for Exceptions -- 4. Rooming Houses and the Margins of Respectability. Plain Rooms. Economic Limbo. Rooming House Districts: Diversity and Mixture. Downtown Alternatives to Rooming Houses. Scattered Homes versus Material Correctness -- 5. Outsiders and Cheap Lodging Houses. Essential Outcasts. No-Family Houses. Zones for Single Laborers: Skid Row and Chinatown. Fronts for Embarrassing Economic Realities -- 6. Building a Civilization Without Homes. Owners and Managers. Specialization for Single Use. Public Impressions and Residential Opposition.
7. Hotel Homes as a Public Nuisance. Hotel Critics and Reform Ranks. Concerns for the Family. Hazards for the Individual. Threats to Urban Citizenship. Hotel Homes as a Public Nuisance -- 8. From Scattered Opinion to Centralized Policy. Forging Frameworks for Housing Change. Early Arenas of Hotel Control. Doctrinaire Idealism and Deliberate Ignorance. Buildings as Targets and Surrogates -- 9. Prohibition Versus Pluralism. Losing Ground: Changing Contexts, 1930-1970. Official Prohibitions of Hotel Life, 1930-1970. Since 1970: Conflicts Surrounding Hotel Life. The Prospect of Pluralism in Housing. History Urban Experts and Pluralism -- Appendix: Hotel and Employment Statistics.

Resources:
Table of contents
Available through UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520068769 (alk. paper)
9780520068766 (alk. paper)
0520219546
9780520219540

Subject:

Single-room occupancy hotels United States History.
Hotels United States History.
Architecture and society United States.
City and town life United States.
Housing United States Sociological aspects.
Single people Housing History.
Maisons de chambres États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture et société États-Unis.
Vie urbaine États-Unis.
Logement États-Unis Aspect sociologique.
Personnes seules Logement Histoire.
Hôtels États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture and society
City and town life
Hotels
Housing Sociological aspects
Single people Housing
Single-room occupancy hotels
Aparthotel
Geschichte
Pensions.
Sociologia urbana.
Habitacao.
Arquitetura moderna (estados unidos)
Hoteis (arquitetura)
Housing United States History.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 108489
Call No.: ID HD7288.U4.G76; ID:94-B3017
Status: Available