Manhattan's Lower East Side immigrant "ghetto." Photograph by Lewis Hine, c. 1909
Evolution of the plans of New York tenement blocks, 1850-190l. (The prize-winning "dumbell tenement" of 1879 is figure C.)
Site plan of the Home Buildings (l, 2), and Tower Buildings (3,4,5). At top (6) is Warren Place Workingmen's Cottages. James Field for Alfred T. White's Improved Dwellings Association, Brooklyn, 1877-79
View of the street façade of the remaining Tower Building, Brooklyn, 1877-79, now housing for the elderly
Eastern European immigrant family in their Lower East Side apartment, New York, c. 19l0. Photograph by Lewis Hine
Typical working-class homes in Chicago, constructed by immigrant building-and-loan societies, c. 1890
Site plan of the model industrial town of Pullman, Il., south of Chicago, George Pullman's railway-car company factory and workers' families. Solon S. Beman 1884
Francisco Terrace model low-rise apartment building, Oak Park, Il. (Chicago suburb). Frank Lloyd Wright for Edward Waller, 1895; rebuilt in 1997
Site plan of Lower East Side Manhattan tenement blocks and the Amalgamated Houses which replaced them in 1929-3l. Springstein and Goldhammer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
View of the Amalgamated Houses on Grand Street, Manhattan, 1929-3l
Map of areas in Chicago where blacks were allowed to live in 1930
Site plan of the Carl Mackley Houses, Philadelphia. Oskar Stonorov and Alfred Kastner for the Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union, funded under the PWA (Publics Works Administration), 1933-34
View of the Carl Mackley Houses
Aerial view of the Williamsburg Houses, Brooklyn. William Lescaze with R. H. Shreve for the PWA, 1936-37
Aerial view of the Harlem River Houses, Manhattan. Archibald M. Brown and John Louis Wilson, et.al., for the PWA, 1938
View of the Harlem River Houses
View and plans of Pruit-Igoe public housing, St. Louis, Mo. Minoru Yamasaki for the St. Louis Housing Authority, 1952-55; partially demolished in 1972
Aerial view of Chicago's Dan Ryan Expressway and Robert Taylor Homes. Shaw Metz & Associates for the Chicago Housing Authority, 1960-63
Aerial photograph and site plan of Lefrak City middle-income housing, New York. Jack Brown for Sam Lefrak, 1960-67
Site plan of St. Francis Square Cooperative Apartments, San Francisco. Marquis and Stoller w/ Lawrence Halprin, landscape architect, for the International Longshoremen's Union, 1960-61
Court-side view of St. Francis Square
Site plan of Marcus Garvey Park Village, Brooklyn. David Todd and the IAUS (Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies) for the UDC (Urban Development Corporation), 1973-75
Court-side view of Marcus Garvey Village
Columbia Point Public Housing, Boston, 1951, and redesign as Harbor Point Apartments. Goody/Clancy and Associates, 1978