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drugs
Narcotics, stimulants, inebriants, and mind-altering substances have been used historically by peoples around the world to satisfy a variety of needs, including religious activities, public ...
(Frederick) Oswald Barnett
(1883–1972)was the most influential anti-slum campaigner of the 1930s and an architect of housing policy in Victoria and the Commonwealth in the early 1940s.From his working-class Methodist childhood ...
housing
Refers both to shelter in houses and to the provision of houses. It is the latter which has attracted historians, who have been particularly interested in tracing the provision of ...
How the Other Half Lives
(1890).Jacob A. Riis's How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York was illustrated by seventeen halftones of photographs from Riis's extensive collection (now held by ...
Hygiene, Personal.
Early European visitors to the United States frequently commented on the absence of reliable supplies of soap and water and the prevalence of mud and manure, flies and insects, and ...
poverty
Poverty is no disgrace, but it is a great incovenience proverbial saying, late 16th century.poverty is not a crime proverbial saying, late 16th century.when poverty comes in at the door, love flies ...
Settlement Houses
African American women were a vital part of the leadership of the settlement house movement, founding and organizing settlement institutions in an effort to better the conditions of members of ...
squatter
A person who takes unauthorized possession of unoccupied premises or land, usually to live there.In the USA, from the late 18th century, a squatter was a settler having no normal or legal title to ...
urban history
Can be defined variously. Histories of individual British towns have been written for over four centuries; studies of towns and urbanization in general came later; while as an academic discipline ...
urban regeneration
The attempt to reinvigorate a run-down urban area, through strategies including the redevelopment of brownfield sites, rehabilitation of the existing building stock, and enhancement of public spaces ...
urban renewal
Fashionable American term of the 1950s, which really meant large-scale destructive redevelopment of urban areas, often in association with central or municipal government. It was adopted in the ...
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