How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (The John Harvard Library) - Hardcover
First published in 1890, Jacob Riis's remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York City had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that affected the lives of millions of people.
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In How The Other Half Lives New Yorkers read with horror that three-quarters of the residents of their city were housed in tenements and that in those tenements rents were substantially higher than in better sections of the city. In his book Riis gave a full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offered suggestions for easing the lot of the poor.
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Sam B. Warner, Jr. is Visiting Professor of Urban History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- PublisherBelknap Press
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0674410068
- ISBN 13 9780674410060
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages270
- EditorWarner Jr. Sam Bass
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