Multistory Housing.
New York: Praeger, 1966. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 215, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. Very Good in Very Good Mylar-Protected DJ. Item #20959
The author traces the recent history of housing construction, from the pioneering efforts of the architects of the 1930s to create dignified housing for the poor, to the actual birth of the New Cities in 1945 in Europe's gutted capitals. With photographs and floor plans, and an informative text, the author shows how architects in cities around the world have answered the problems of high-density living. He analyzes the major international problems of slums and of slum clearance; the conscious attempts at decentralization; and the new "ribbon" city - the urban complex that extends in America, for instance, from Boston to Washington. A scarce title we are offering for the first time.
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