How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, Paperback - Jacob a. Riis

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"How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th ce...

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How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-making, austerity, notions of de...

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Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): Jacob NeusnerNumber of pages: 470Collection: Studies in JudaismPublication date: 2007Dimensions: 2...

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Publisher: New York University PressIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 352Collection: Critical Perspectives on YouthPublication ...

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