State Tenement House Act and State Hotel and Lodging House Act of California
Author : California
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Building laws
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Author : California
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Building laws
ISBN :
Author : California
Publisher :
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Building laws
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Author : California. Commission of Immigration and Housing
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Hotels
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Author : California. Commission of Immigration and Housing
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Hotels
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Author : Paul Groth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
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ISBN : 0520312791
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.
Author : California
Publisher :
Page : 2180 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Session laws
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Author : California. Legislature. Senate
Publisher :
Page : 2474 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 1915
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : California. Secretary of State
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 1928
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : California
Publisher :
Page : 2480 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 1915
Category :
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Author : Liz Falletta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1351202499
Housing is an essential, but complex, product, so complex that professionals involved in its production, namely, architects, real estate developers and urban planners, have difficulty agreeing on “good” housing outcomes. Less-than-optimal solutions that have resulted from a too narrow focus on one discipline over others are familiar: high design that is costly to build that makes little contribution to the public realm, highly profitable but seemingly identical “cookie-cutter” dwellings with no sense of place and well-planned neighborhoods full of generically designed, unmarketable product types. Differing roles, languages and criteria for success shape these perspectives, which, in turn, influence attitudes about housing regulation. Real estate developers, for example, prefer projects that can be built “as-of-right” or “by-right,” meaning that they can be approved quickly because they meet all current planning, zoning and building code requirements. Design-focused projects, heretofore “by-design,” by contrast, often require time to challenge existing regulatory codes, pursuing discretionary modifications meant to maximize design innovation and development potential. Meanwhile, urban planners work to establish and mediate the threshold between by-right and by-design processes by setting housing standards and determining appropriate housing policy. But just what is the right line between “by-right” and “by-design”? By-Right, By-Design provides a historical perspective, conceptual frameworks and practical strategies that cross and connect the diverse professions involved in housing production. The heart of the book is a set of six cross-disciplinary comparative case studies, each examining a significant Los Angeles housing design precedent approved by-variance and its associated development type approved as of right. Each comparison tells a different story about the often-hidden relationships among the three primary disciplines shaping the built environment, some of which uphold, and others of which transgress, conventional disciplinary stereotypes.