Alone Together

by Cromley, Elizabeth Collins

• ISBN13: 9780801486135
• ISBN10: 0801486130
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix	(4)
Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(10)
1 Making Do	11	(21)
2 Reference Points: Good and Bad Dwellings	32	(30)
3 The First Generation of New York Apartments	62	(42)
4 At Home in the First Apartment Houses	104	(24)
5 The Family Flat Grows Up	128	(44)
6 The Modern Apartment House	172	(40)
Notes	212	(23)
Bibliography	235	(14)
Index	249