Alone Together

A History of New York's Early Apartments

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

Av Elizabeth Collins Cromley

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Twentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second half of the nineteenth century, middle-class apartments in Manhattan were a new—and somewhat suspect—architectural form. Alone Together presents a history of the "invention" of New York apartment houses.

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Utgivningsdatum1998-12-29
Mått178 x 254 x 16 mm
Vikt907 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9780801486135
UtmärkelserWinner of the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award (Vernac

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"After the Civil War, New York City developed an architectural form new to North America—a building designed as a multiple dwelling for middle-class families. The author chronicles the technological and the social evolution of the apartment house. . . . Along the way, she describes the domestic manners of New Yorkers of every class, from tenement-dwellers to the inhabitants of luxury apartments, and their rising expectations (indoor plumbing, for example) over a period of fifty years."—The New Yorker