TY - GEN AU - Plunz, Richard TI - History of housing in New York city SN - 9780231178358 U1 - 363.50974 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - N1 - CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Foreword by Kenneth T. Jackson xxxi Preface: Dwelling Type and Social Change in the American Metropolis x xxxv Acknowledgments xlv 1. Early Precedents 1 2. Legislating the Tenement 21 3. Rich and Poor 50 4. Beyond the Tenement 88 5. The^Crarden Apartment 122 6. Aesthetics and Realities 164 7. Government Intervention 207 8. Pathology of Public Housing 247 9. New Directions 280 10. Entropies and Atrophies 313 Epilogue: Endgames? 341 Notes 361 Bibliography 401 Illustration Credits 431 Index 441 ER -