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Housing the Urban Half
Posted: 07 March 2007, 12:58, by: IFHP2007
More than a century ago, the Danish journalist and photographer Jacob A. Riis documented “How the Other Half Lives,” shedding light on the plight of tenement dwellers — people who had moved to the city in search of a better life. Today it is a question of how to house the urban half? And this urban half is in all likelihood you!
 
How the Other Half Lives – complete on-line edition:
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html

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