Building tradition : pan-Asian seattle and life in the residential hotels / Marie Rose Wong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, Marie Rose, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society--Washington (State)--Seattle.

Architecture and society.

Single-room occupancy hotels--Washington (State)--Seattle.

Single-room occupancy hotels.

Asian Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle--Social conditions.

Asian Americans.

Chinatown-International District (Seattle, Wash.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Chinatown-International District (Seattle, Wash.).

Seattle (Wash.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Seattle (Wash.).

Chinatown-International District (Seattle, Wash.)--Social conditions.

Seattle (Wash.)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : Chin Music Press, 2018.

Summary:

Marie Rose Wong peers through the lens of single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels to capture the 157-year origin story of Seattle's pan-Asian International District. This gorgeous, meticulous book layers together interviews, maps, and insights from over a decade of primary research to provide an urgent history for Asian American activists and urban planners.

Contents:

Asian American Seattle and the laws of the land

Prosperity 'below the line'

The business of building residential hotels

The neighborhood of Asian American hotels

Behind those 'ordinary' walls

The death knell of the SRO residential hotels

The legacy of the SRO residential hotels.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781634059688

1634059689