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Machine Generated Contents Note: Mass Housing -- Between Glory And Shame -- Continuous Principles: Paternalism And Standardization -- Seven Historical Narratives -- Ch. 1 Social Reform, State Control, And The Origins Of Mass Housing -- Housing And The Social Question -- The Origins Of Industrialized Construction -- The Modernist Movement In The Interwar Period: The First Mass Housing Developments In Germany, France, And England -- The Post-war Era: Mass Housing Goes Global -- Ch. 2 Mass Housing In Chicago -- Anti-high-rise America -- Tower Blocks In The Black Belt -- Equal Dwelling Conditions In A Market Economy -- Brutal Buildings -- New York Exceptionalism -- Replacing Towers With Pitched-roof Houses -- Exorcising The Spirits Of The Past -- Ch. 3 The Concrete Cordon Around Paris -- Victims Of Modernism? -- Charity And Control -- Building A Concrete Cordon -- Sarcellitis: The Mass Housing Disease -- Improving The Grands Ensembles? Note Continued: Cite De La Muette: Mass Housing And Mass Murder -- Mass Housing And The Geography Of Exclusion -- Ch. 4 Slabs Versus Tenements In East And West Berlin -- Battles Over Buildings -- Organic Concrete Blocks -- Fall From Public Grace -- The Murdered City -- Blurred Party Lines -- The Slab In East Berlin -- Demonic Tower Blocks, Homely Late-nineteenth-century Tenements -- Reconfiguring Old And New -- Ghettos For Immigrants? -- The Calm After The Storm -- Ch. 5 Brasilia, The Slab Block Capital -- Order And Progress: A New Metropolis As A Condenser For Modernization -- The Superquadra -- Egalitarian Dreams In A Polarized Country -- City Of Hope And Modernist Dystopia -- The Tower In The Jungle -- Pilot Plan Versus Satellite Cities? -- An Architectural Comeback? -- Ch. 6 Mumbai -- Mass Housing For The Upper Crust -- The Tower And The Slum -- A Metropolis On Seven Islands -- Colonial Precedents: The Chawl And The Apartment Block Note Continued: From Independence To Neoliberalism: Housing In A Mixed Economy -- 1993 -- Present: The State As Facilitator Of Housing -- High-rise Slums For The Rich: The Back Bay Land Reclamation -- Why Is There No Prefabrication In India? -- Alternative Approaches: Sites And Services -- Standardized Upscale Dwellings -- Ch. 7 Prefab Moscow -- The Industrialization Of The Soviet Construction Industry -- Oxygen For The Housing Market -- Stratifications Of A Socialist Metropolis -- Privatization And Differentiation -- Panel Buildings In Russia Today -- Ch. 8 High-rise Shanghai -- The Shanghai Skyline -- The 1950s: Standard Design, Individual Construction -- Modernist New Villages -- Prefab Experiments -- Structural Reform: Privatization And Polarization -- High-rise Apartments For The Privileged And For The Masses -- Tower Block Compounds Versus Historic Alleys? -- Shanghai: Future Capital Of Tower Block Housing? -- Ch. 9 Global Architecture, Locally Conditoned Note Continued: Adapting The Mass Housing Block To Local Conditions -- Ambiguous Effects, Contextual Perception -- Flexible Meaning, Inflexible Architecture. Florian Urban. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.