Author: W. C. FirebaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Inns of Greece & Rome and a History of Hospitality from the Dawn of Time to the Middle Ages
Author: W. C. FirebaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Book Bulletin
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Books and Notes
Author: Los Angeles County Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
The Inns of Greece and Rome
Author: W. C. FirebaughPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258509644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Book Review Digest
Author: The Biblio
Author: Living Downtown
Author: Paul GrothPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520219540
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
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 life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.
The United States Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
Book Description
Books of 1912-
Author: The American Mercury
Author: Henry Louis MenckenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description