Here is the complete list of posts, in order, in the series on The History of the Tenement in New York (I've included the popular A history of the slums of New York post that complements the tenement history):
Preface: A history of the slums of New York
Introduction
Why are tenements so diverse?
Anti-Catholic town, Anti-Catholic architecture
How architecture began in NYC
(an outlier hypothesis)
A digression
Banks, Romans, fashion-mongerers and modernism
What Roman architecture tells us about our notion of time and fashion, progress, and our cultural personality
Ghetto real estate
How and why the slums -- and the apartment building -- began
The inverse law of ghetto real estate
The economics of exploitation
External vs internal
A summary so far of the divergent purposes of design
Political history
Clarifying the origins of our two political parties and their significance for the immigrant labor ghetto
What's a tenement?
Law and changing perceptions
A market lesson in brick
The oldest and tallest tenement, and how it got that way
New Law, Old Law, Pre-Law, lawless
Quick history of housing laws and how to identify tenement periods
Don't believe what you read
...or see on a cornice or on a NYC gov't document
Don't trust historians
How the limits of professionalism can mislead
And ignore the know-it-alls
Know their bias and agenda
Personality, humor and taste
in tenement design of the 1880's and 90's
From the depths of Schopenhauer and Wagner to the surfaces of Nietzsche and Wilde
Romanticism and aestheticism merge in a tenement on Madison Street
Exhibitionism
The last hurrah of wealth and privilege
The law of unintended consequences
What conduces to freedom, expression and innovation?
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