| Description |
1 online resource (x, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Urban life, landscape, and policy |
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Urban life, landscape, and policy.
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| Contents |
Part I: Migration. Passages: Moving to and through houses in an industrial city -- American houses: architecture of the melting pot project -- Part II: Modernization. Forms of modern housing: alternative models from Dessau to Detroit -- Modern housebuilding: policy, products, and labor -- Detroit's other industry: real estate and the culture of elusive security -- Better lives: making do in modern houses -- Part III: Struggle. Glass and stones: materials of race and neighborhood violence -- Social contract in crisis: welfare, eviction, and activism in the Depression |
| Summary |
"Explores developments in Detroit's early twentieth-century workers' housing as a significant moment in global architectural history. Argues that the city's workers and employers negotiated an implicit social contract in which the work of mass production was rewarded with access to modern housing"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2023) |
| Subject |
Working class -- Dwellings -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century
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Architecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century
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Housing -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century
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Cost and standard of living -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century
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Architecture, Domestic
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Cost and standard of living
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Housing
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Social conditions
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Working class -- Dwellings
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| SUBJECT |
Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Michigan -- Detroit
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023006420 |
| ISBN |
9781439923931 |
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1439923930 |
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