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Housing and Economic Progress : A Study of the Housing Experiences of Boston’s Middle-Income Families / Lloyd Rodwin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard UniversityPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1961Edition: Reprint 2014Description: 1 online resource (228 p.) : 13 charts, 17 maps, 22 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674369160
  • 9780674369177
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.833
LOC classification:
  • HD7304.B7
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Charts -- Maps -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction and Summary -- PART ONE. THE HOUSING EXPERIENCE OF BOSTON'S MIDDLE-INCOME FAMILIES -- CHAPTER 2. Income, Rent Levels, Expenditure Patterns, and Standards: 1846–1959 -- CHAPTER 3. Middle-Income Housing: Past and Present -- CHAPTER 4. Boston’s Experience with and without Rent Controls -- PART TWO. BOSTON'S RESIDENTIAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: HISTORY AND THEORY -- CHAPTER 5. Residential Growth and Development -- CHAPTER 6. Residential Growth and Structure: Hypotheses and Generalizations -- PART THREE. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS -- CHAPTER 7. Housing and Economic Progress -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A. Derivation of Data on Income and Housing Costs: 1846-1959 -- APPENDIX Β. Rent Control and Housing -- APPENDIX C. Notes on Walter Firey’s Critique of the Sector Thesis -- APPENDIX D. Per cent of Population Changes in Boston by Wards for Selected Periods, 1885–1950 -- APPENDIX Ε. Ward Boundaries of Boston -- List of References -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- INDEX

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Charts -- Maps -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction and Summary -- PART ONE. THE HOUSING EXPERIENCE OF BOSTON'S MIDDLE-INCOME FAMILIES -- CHAPTER 2. Income, Rent Levels, Expenditure Patterns, and Standards: 1846–1959 -- CHAPTER 3. Middle-Income Housing: Past and Present -- CHAPTER 4. Boston’s Experience with and without Rent Controls -- PART TWO. BOSTON'S RESIDENTIAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: HISTORY AND THEORY -- CHAPTER 5. Residential Growth and Development -- CHAPTER 6. Residential Growth and Structure: Hypotheses and Generalizations -- PART THREE. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS -- CHAPTER 7. Housing and Economic Progress -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A. Derivation of Data on Income and Housing Costs: 1846-1959 -- APPENDIX Β. Rent Control and Housing -- APPENDIX C. Notes on Walter Firey’s Critique of the Sector Thesis -- APPENDIX D. Per cent of Population Changes in Boston by Wards for Selected Periods, 1885–1950 -- APPENDIX Ε. Ward Boundaries of Boston -- List of References -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- INDEX

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