[Download] "Keeping the Tenants Down: Height Restrictions and Manhattan's Tenement House System, 1885-1930." by The Cato Journal * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free

📘 Read Now     📥 Download

eBook details

• Title: Keeping the Tenants Down: Height Restrictions and Manhattan's Tenement House System, 1885-1930.
• Author : The Cato Journal
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 273 KB

Description

Between 1850 and 1930, New York City commonly is believed to have offered its poor citizens the worst housing conditions of any of the world's major industrialized cities. Historians emphasize the following features: high population density leading to extreme overcrowding of tenements; tenement houses packed together as closely as possible to maximize land use; the dark, disease-ridden, poorly constructed, fire-prone tenements; the minimal level of utility services offered; and the failure of 19th-century reform efforts. Unfettered capitalism invariably is put forth as the primary cause of all these social ills. (1) A kind of morality play emerges from this interpretation emphasizing the awful price allegedly imposed on the poor by 19th-century urban capitalism. And, as befits a morality play, a crusading hero--"Big Government"--rises up early in the 20th century to vanquish capitalism's evil excesses. Viewed in this fashion, the tale of Manhattan's tenements is a classic indictment of capitalist institutions and a powerful endorsement of Big Government as the vital counterweight to business's money-grubbing ways.

Books Free Download "Keeping the Tenants Down: Height Restrictions and Manhattan's Tenement House System, 1885-1930." PDF ePub Kindle