Download or read book Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States (Classic Reprint) written by Edith Elmer Wood and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States Page I. Design for Living? Frontispiece; II. Careful and careless tenants Facing 6 Fig.1. Over-crowded basement home. Fig.2. Discouraged. III. Worn-out housing Facing Pi. IV Fig.1. More than ripe for demolition. Fig.2. Loft altered for residence of mother and eight children. Fig.3. Deteriorated neighborhood. IV. Fire traps and other substandard dwellings Facing Pi. Ill Fig.1. Fire-trap tenement. Figs.2 and 3. Two characteristic types of substandard dwelling. V.Housing for Negroes in the South Facing 7 Fig.1. A common type of housing for Negroes. Fig.2. Rear yard of Negro slums. VI. Spot map of juvenile delinquency and misdemeanant cases in Manhattan in 1930, reduced from The Slum and Crime-. Facing 33 VII. Metropolitan slums Facing 52 Fig.1. Basement home. Fig.2. Shared cellar toilet. Fig.3. Tall facades with dark rooms behind them. VIII. Alley homes and four interiors Facing Pi. IX Fig.1. Foreign born. Fig.2. Native born. Fig.3. Alley homes. Fig.4. Leaking roof. Fig.5. Partly modern. IX. Run-down urban housing built too close together Facing Pi. VIII X.Dilapidation, darkness, and lack of sanitation Facing 53 Fig.1. Dilapidation. Fig.2. Six-foot windowless bedroom photographed by flashlight. Fig.3. Out-door toilet and out-door water supply. XL Structurally unsound- Facing 89 d104 Figures 1. Map of Chicago. Rates of juvenile delinquency in Chicago 12 2.Census tracts, City of Indianapolis. Areas of greatest economic drain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.