Industrial Housing. Andrew J. Thomas

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       Andrew J. Thomas

      Industrial Housing

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4064066443320

Table of Contents

       How industry transforms a city

       Industry creates problems in housing

       The Bayonne Housing Corporation organized

       Housing based on business principles

       The social responsibility

       The first group of homes

       CHAPTER I

       Economics of Industrial Housing

       The effect of the new housing architecture

       The contrast of slums

       The factors of high cost

       The place of housing in American history

       Weaknesses in housing production

       The factor of land value

       Factor of public improvements

       Factor of land utilization

       ​ Construction costs

       Cost of house furnishings

       Finance is the heaviest cost

       The effect of interest rates on rentals

       Mechanical equipment and woman's labor

       Legal and structural requirements

       Cost of operating a home

       The wage-earner's income

       The wreck of the housing industry

       The consequence of failure: slums

       Deterioration in architecture

       The counsel of failure

       Success found at Bayonne

       CHAPTER II

       The Garden Apartment

       ​ The co-operation of labor

       Construction and finish

       Mechanical equipment

       The advance in planning

       Comparison with one-family and row housing types

       Economy of operation

       A new type of management

       Rentals in the Bayonne housing

       Architectural merits—the plan

       The garden environment

       The playground

       CHAPTER III

       The Bayonne Housing Corporation

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      ​AT the close of the nineteenth century, the little city of Bayonne, New Jersey, still retained its early character of a residential center. Located on a low, narrow peninsula which extends along the west side of upper New York Harbor it was rather sparsely covered with little individual wood houses, set in the familiar pattern of rectangular streets, laid out in a multitude of long narrow blocks, as nearly alike as possible—the traditional American town. Slowly growing, it was taking its place as a suburb of New York City. For the most part, industry had left it undisturbed. Self-contained and homogeneous, Bayonne had few serious problems.

How industry transforms a city

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      But the twentieth century brought a profound change. The Aladdins of industry noticed Bayonne's position on the shore line of the Port of New York, remarked the main line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey running along its water-front, and they saw