Modern Housing
Modern Housing
$35.00
Bauer, Catherine. Penner, Babara. foreword.
SKU: S02701
Originally published in 1934, the book is widely acknowledged as one of the most important books on housing in the 20th. century. Modern Housing’s sharp message catalyzed an intense period of housing activism in the United States, resulting in the Housing Act of 1937, which Catherine Bauer coauthored. But these reforms never went far enough: so long as housing remained the subject of capitalist speculation, Bauer knew the housing problem would remain. In light of today’s affordable housing emergency, her prescriptions for how to achieve humane and dignified modern housing remain as instructive and urgent as ever. Many photos of the ideas discussed.
332 pp. Cl. Pap.
