Apartments, townhouses, and condominiums /
edited by Elisabeth Kendall Thompson
- New York : McGraw Hill Education, c1975
- 216 pages : illustrations, plans ; 31 cm.
Includes index.
Preface -- Apartments and townhouses in the city: Low rise buildings -- High rise buildings -- Townhouses -- Garden complexes on suburban sites -- Designing for low and moderate incomes -- Conversions -- Large scale developments -- Condominiums and apartments in resort areas -- Apartment and townhouse interiors -- Index.
This book makes its appearance at a time when multi-unit housing---the apartment building, garden complex or townhouse--is of increasing importance on the American scene, both because of the waning incidence of the single-family house, for so long the prevailing type of dwelling in his country, and because of the continuing and pressing need for more housing---a need that can now be met only by some form of multi-unit solution.