List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Preface

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1
CONSTRUCTION AND URBANIZATION IN BUDAPEST AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Economic and Social Conditions for Metropolitan Development
The Board of Works as the Engine of Metropolitan Development
Building Cycles, Investors, House-Owners

Chapter 2
PRIVATE REFUGE—DOMESTIC LIFE IN BUDAPEST IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
The Pest Apartment Block and Its Inhabitants
Palaces on the Outside, Middle-Class Homes Within
The Inhabitants of a Lipótváros Apartment Building
Use of Domestic Space and Lifestyles Patterns
The Rules of Social Contact
Modernizing Social Contact—the Telephone in the Home
Tenants on the Move—Housing Mobility
Middle-Class Homes and Interiors in Nineteenth-Century Budapest
The Inventory as Source Material for a Study of Domestic Culture
Flats and Their Residents
Rooms and Interiors
Furnishings and Apartment Structure: Mirror of Values
The Middle-Class Home as a Feminine Realm: Social Life and the Drawing Room
Books in Middle-Class Homes
The Home as Cultural Code of Identity
Middle-Class Housing Conditions between the Two Wars
The Middle-Class Crash
Types and Sizes of Houses
The Social Determinants of the ‘Housing Classes’
Home Comforts
‘Middle-Class’ Tenants in Space
Lodgers and Servants in Middle-Class Households
Housing Costs
The Interiors of Smaller Middle-Class Apartments

Chapter 3
PRIVATE SPACE IN THE COMMUNITY. THE BUDAPEST WORKING-CLASS FLAT IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Housing Conditions: Overcrowding, Lodgers and Bed-Tenants under the Dual Monarchy
Tenancy: Legal Aspects and Practices
Interiors and Interior Design
A Dramatic Housing Shortage during the Rent Control Period
Tabán: Village in the City
The Pariahs of the Slums
The Working-Class Home, Inside and Out
Crowded Flats and Working-Class Families
Rent and Eviction

EPILOGUE

NOTES
INDEX