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A model housing law (1914)

Veiller, Lawrence Turnure · New York, Survey associates, inc. · leaf 124

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eachflat. Fifty per cent of all the rooms were windowlessand without either light or air, thus returning to theworst type of house that had been erected in that cityand which had been outlawed some thirty years back.The houses were rented as wardrobe flats. The I 12 § 33 LIGHT AND VENTILATION… … FIGURE 28 FIGURE 29 WARDROBE FLATS erected, they rented the apartments. So skilful didthe builders become in this device that they evenwent one step further and hinged these wardrobes sothat when the city inspector should come to inspectthe apartment the wardrobes would be swung back8 113 A MODEL…

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