NATIONAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION
INFORMAL CONFERENCE
ON
ENGLISH HOUSING
NOVEMBER 23, 1914
It is proposed to make this Conference as informal as possible. There will be no written papers, but a subject will be introduced briefly, emphasis being laid on a few important points. The subject will then be open for general discussion.
CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT
RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION BUILDING
130 EAST 22D STREET
NEW YORK CITY [page 2]
MORNING
A 10 O'CLOCK
Room 200
Conference opened by
MR. ROBERT W. DE FOREST
President of the National Housing Association
IMPROVEMENTS DUE TO LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND PUBLISH ADMINISTRATION
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1. The English Housing and Town Planning Law of 1909 and Its Results
FRANK B. WILLIAMS
Chairman, City Planning Committee, City Club
2. Housing Work of Local Authorities-- Health and Building Departments
JOHN J. MURPHY
Commissioner of the New York City Tenement House Department
Municipal Dwellings
JAMES JENKINS JR.
Director, Department of Social Betterment, Brooklyn Bureau of Charities
3. Distribution of Population
EDWARD M. BASSETT
Chairman, New York Commission on Building Districts and Restrictions [page 3]
AFTERNOON
AT 2 O'CLOCK
Room 205
THE HUMAN SIDE
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1. Slum Population of four English Cities: London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool
Character of the Population Housed in Different Garden Communities in Municipal Dwellings
MISS UDETTA D. BROWN
Housing Investigator
2. Management: Municipal, Garden Community (Company, Proprietary, Co-Partnership), Octavia Hill, Real Estate
MISS EMILY W. DINWIDDIE
Supervisor of Dwelling Houses of Trinity Corporation
3. House Plans from the Tenant's Point of View
MISS MADGE D. HEADLEY
Secretary, Tenement House Committee
New York Charity Organization Society
4. Recreation in the Garden Communities; Public and Commercial; Value of Gardens; [Accessibility] to Neighboring City
GRAHAM R. TAYLOR
The Survey [page 4]
EVENING
AT 8:15 O'CLOCK
Room 200
THE DEVELOPMENT OF GARDEN COMMUNITIES
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1. Three Kinds: Suburbs, Villages, Cities. Contrast with Normal Commercial Developments. Advantages and Disadvantages from the Point of View of Inhabitants.
HORACE B. MANN
Architect, New York City
2. Layout of Garden Communities as Regards Economy, Convenience, Sanitation, Amenity. Cost and Quality of Work. Rents Compared With Those in Purely Commercial Developments.
MAURICE R. SCHARFF
Civil Engineer, Pittsburgh, Pa.
3. Cost of Building a "Model" Cottage in England as Compared with Cost near New York
GROSVENOR ATTERBURY
Fellow American Institute of Architects
4. Financing Garden Communities; Government Loans, Company Undertakings, Proprietary or Factory Developments, Co-Partnership Estates
JOHN IHLDER
Field Secretary, National Housing Association
5. Effect Upon Neighboring Developments
GEORGE B. FORD
City Planner, Consulting Engineer to the New York Commission on Building Districts and Restrictions
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