SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
THE TENEMENT FROM THE OUTSIDE. 
FROM COTTAGE TO 
TENEMENT. eq 
German City in process of 
replacing earlier types of . self- 
~ contained cottages by residential 
tenements or flats. Working 
class district, 
NO COTTAGES—ALL 
TENEMENTS. 
New erected tenement housing 
in middle class district, where 
the density of persons is 800 
per acre, 
“EVEN THE WELL-TO-DO 
' CAN ONLY AFFORD. 
TENEMENTS. 
Uncontrolled speculation in land 
and building in Germany before 
the war had eliminated the cottage 
from urban life and compelled all 
classes (except the very rich) to 
live in flats. 
of particular household devices. The plan shows an eight-story build- 
ing, containing 40 apartment houses, built on an area of 40 feet x 
60 feet. If the flats were erected on an area.of 66 feet x 66 feet, the 
“rate of building would be equal to 400 houses to the acre. If limited 
to the area quoted on the plan, the number of houses per acre would 
equal 736. ‘Taking 400 houses at four people per house (modern flat 
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