Housing Density Lecture Series – After the Tenements: Out or Up in the 1920s?
Jun 13, 2019
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2019-06-13 18:30:00
2019-06-13 20:00:00
America/New_York
Housing Density Lecture Series – After the Tenements: Out or Up in the 1920s?
This discussion among urban and housing historians Richard Plunz, James Sanders, and Carol Willis will consider the early 20th-century alternative models of decentralizing the dense tenement districts of the Lower East Side through the construction of garden apartments in the boroughs or by the short-lived trend in the late 1920s to erect skyscraper complexes such as Tudor City and London Terrace in Manhattan. We posit: Could housing reformers and private development have replaced crowded teneme
The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place New York NY