First edition, first printing of this comprehensive study of housing at the height of the New Deal, addressing land economics, population, finance, taxation, zoning, home ownership, rental housing, slum clearance, rehabilitation, public housing, and neighborhood planning. 8vo (7 × 10 inches), publisher’s beige cloth lettered in red, typographic dust jacket, xv, 291 pages, illustrated with b/w photographs, diagrams, and tables. WIth a bibliographical essay on housing literature at the rear.Published in 1939 by John Wiley & Sons.
The author, Romanian-born Carol Aronovici (1881–1957) was an influential American social researcher, writer, housing reformer, and professional city planner. Credited with teaching one of the earliest American university courses devoted to city planning, he worked as a housing commissioner and municipal consultant and taught or lectured at Pennsylvania, Harvard, Columbia, and New York University. He was also one of the formative figures in Columbia’s early urban-planning program and edited the 1934 MoMA publication America Can’t Have Housing.
From the library of architect Alvin Berton Harrison (1918–2011), with his ownership inscription dated 1939 on the front pastedown. Harrison later received a graduate degree in architecture from Harvard and served as an editorial associate of Task 3: Architecture and City Planning in Soviet Russia, published by students connected with the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1942. A professionally relevant, publication-year provenance.
Light bumping to top corner of textblock. Minor bumping to boards. Bumping and rubbing to edge-chipped dust jacket. Toning to spine of dj, with small open tears to spine ends, and 3” closed tear to spine head. Scarce in the original jacket.
First edition, first printing of this comprehensive study of housing at the height of the New Deal, addressing land economics, population, finance, taxation, zoning, home ownership, rental housing, slum clearance, rehabilitation, public housing, and neighborhood planning. 8vo (7 × 10 inches), publisher’s beige cloth lettered in red, typographic dust jacket, xv, 291 pages, illustrated with b/w photographs, diagrams, and tables. WIth a bibliographical essay on housing literature at the rear.Published in 1939 by John Wiley & Sons.
The author, Romanian-born Carol Aronovici (1881–1957) was an influential American social researcher, writer, housing reformer, and professional city planner. Credited with teaching one of the earliest American university courses devoted to city planning, he worked as a housing commissioner and municipal consultant and taught or lectured at Pennsylvania, Harvard, Columbia, and New York University. He was also one of the formative figures in Columbia’s early urban-planning program and edited the 1934 MoMA publication America Can’t Have Housing.
From the library of architect Alvin Berton Harrison (1918–2011), with his ownership inscription dated 1939 on the front pastedown. Harrison later received a graduate degree in architecture from Harvard and served as an editorial associate of Task 3: Architecture and City Planning in Soviet Russia, published by students connected with the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1942. A professionally relevant, publication-year provenance.
Light bumping to top corner of textblock. Minor bumping to boards. Bumping and rubbing to edge-chipped dust jacket. Toning to spine of dj, with small open tears to spine ends, and 3” closed tear to spine head. Scarce in the original jacket.
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