"Daniel Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of Missing Middle housing types-such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts- to meet today's diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing, explains why more developers should be building them, and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable them to be...

"On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine's gripping narrative tells the true story of the...

Describes the work done each day by a Chilean American who is the building maintenance contractor responsible for a neighborhood apartment building.

Under the yum yum tree: A landlord, in love with a tenant, tries to convince her to dump her fiancé and give him a chance. My sister Eileen: Two Ohio girls move to New York City to seek their fortunes: Eileen as an actress, her sister as a writer. Their apartment is a magnet for an assortment of zany characters, winding up with unwanted South American sailors who form a conga line. Phffft!: When their marriage finally goes "Phffft!", Nina and Robert...