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Author Doucet, Michael J

Title Housing the North American city / Michael Doucet and John Weaver
Published Kingston, Ont. : McGill Queen's University Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 572 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Illustrations -- Introduction: City Building and Shelter History -- 1 Residential Land Development before 1880: The Era of Individualism -- 2 The Transition to Modern Development: The Era of Corporate Involvement, 1880�1945 -- 3 Modern Residential Development Practices: The Era of State Intervention -- 4 Launching the Will to Possess: North American Property Ownership as a Cultural Phenomenon, 1820s�1980s -- 5 Material Culture and the North American House: The Era of the Common Man, 1870s�1980s
6 Crafting Home Finance: Mortgages as Artifacts of Law, Business, and the Interventionist State, 1790s�1980s7 The Social Contours of Home Ownership in a Middle-Rank North American City, 1856�1981 -- 8 The Rented House: Landlords and Tenants, 1830s�1960s -- 9 The North American Apartment Building as a Matter of Business and an Expression of Culture: A Survey and Case Study, 1900s�1980s -- 10 Housing Quality and Urban Environments, 1830s�1980s -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N
Op -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-566) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Housing -- Ontario -- Hamilton -- History
Architecture, Domestic -- Ontario -- Hamilton -- History
Building trades -- Ontario -- Hamilton -- History
Housing -- Canada -- History
Housing -- United States -- History
Land use, Urban -- Canada -- History
Land use, Urban -- United States -- History
Home ownership -- Canada -- History
Home ownership -- United States -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
Land use, Urban
Home ownership
Architecture, Domestic
Building trades
Housing
Huisvesting.
Stadsplanning.
SUBJECT Hamilton (Ont.) -- History
Subject United States
Canada
Ontario -- Hamilton
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Weaver, John C
ISBN 9780773562820
0773562826