Modern Housing.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Housing Is More Than Houses -- Acknowledgments -- An Introductory Note -- PART ONE. NINETEENTH-CENTURY CITIES: A RECORD OF FAILURE -- I. The Period of Black Congestion -- II. The Era of Wasteful Expansion -- III. Victorian Mind and Matter -- PART TWO. GATHERING FORCES -- I. An Advance Guard of Ideas -- II. The Heyday of Paternal Reform -- III. Changes in the Social Structure -- IV. Toward a New Physical World -- PART THREE. POST-WAR HOUSING: FACTS AND FIGURES -- I. The Situation -- II. The Houses Built -- III. The Means -- IV. The Outlook -- PART FOUR. ELEMENTS OF MODERN HOUSING -- I. Minimum Standards in Practice -- II. A New Method: The Community Unit -- III. Location: Housing and Cities -- IV. Layout and Building Arrangement -- V. Building Types and Dwelling Plans -- VI. Construction -- VII. Architecture -- VIII. Economics and Economies -- IX. Modern Housing for America? -- APPENDIX TO PART THREE: NATIONAL HOUSING MEASURES, 1850-1987 -- I. England -- II. Germany -- III. Holland -- IV. Belgium -- V. France -- VI. Austria -- VII. The Scandinavian Countries -- VIII. Switzerland -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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