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Manhattan's Lower East Side "ghetto"
Manhattan's Lower East Side "ghetto"
artist:  Photograph by Lewis Hine
date:  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), Tower Buildings (3,4,5) and Warren Place Workingmen's Cottages, Brooklyn, 1877-79. James Field for Alfred T. White's Improved Dwellings Association

View of the street façade of the remaining Tower Building, Brooklyn, 1877-79

Eastern European immigrant family in their Lower East Side apartment, New York, c. 19l0. Photograph by Lewis Hine

Typical working-class homes in Chicago, c. 1890, constructed by immigrant building-and-loan societies

Site plan of the model industrial town of Pullman, Il., south of Chicago, 1884, by Solon S. Beman for George Pullman's railway-car company factory and workers' families

Francisco Terrace model low-rise apartment building, Oak Park, Il. (Chicago suburb), 1895. Frank Lloyd Wright for Edward Waller; 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

Bird's-eye view of the Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments for black families on Chicago's South Side, 1927-29. Alfred Stern for the Julius Rosenwald Foundation

View and plans of Pruit-Igoe public housing, St. Louis, Mo., 1952-55. Minoru Yamasaki for the St. Louis Housing Authority; partially demolished in 1972

Aerial view of Chicago's Dan Ryan Expressway and Robert Taylor Homes, 1960-63. Shaw Metz and Associates for the Chicago Housing Authority

Aerial photograph and site plan of Lefrak City middle-income housing, New York, 1960-67. Jack Brown for Sam Lefrak

Site plan of St. Francis Square Cooperative Apartments, San Francisco, 1960-61. Marquis and Stoller w/ Lawrence Halprin, landscape architect, for the International Longshoremen's Union

Court-side view of St. Francis Square, 1960-61

Site plan of Marcus Garvey Park Village, Brooklyn, 1973-75. David Todd and the IAUS (Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies) for the UDC (Urban Development Corporation)

Court-side view of Marcus Garvey Village, 1973-75

Columbia Point Public Housing, Boston, 1951, and redesign as Harbor Point Apartments, 1978. Goody/Clancy and Associates

View of Harbor Point Apartments, Boston, 1978-90

Project organization diagrams of Hismen Hin-nu Terrace, Oakland, Ca.,1990-95, Michael Pyatok and Associates

View of Hismen Hin-nu Terrace, Oakland, 1990-95