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The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
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Excerpt - on Page 15: " ... And their combined earnings supported a frugal existence at No. 47 George Yard Buildings, a block of model dwellings occupied, as the East London Observer tells us, by `people of the poorest description', in George Yard (present Gunthorpe Street), ... "

East End 1888
East End 1888 by William Fishman
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Excerpt - on Page 16: " ... large piles of cleanly-looking buildings. What has become of the people who were dislodged? Are they re-housed in the new Model Dwellings? Certainly not. ... "

Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London
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Excerpt - on Page 87: " ... In "The Influence of Model Dwellings Upon Character," written in 189z, when large blocks had become more common than they had been in previous decades, Hill ... "

Art Nouveau and the Social Vision of Modern Living: Belgian Artists in a European Context (Modern Architecture and Cultural Identity)
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Excerpt - on Page 121: " ... housing as a basic human need consequently useful in maintaining social order. From the eighteenth century, reformers and architects developed model dwellings and towns for the working classes. By the nineteenth century a wide variety of schemes offered alternatives to both the ... "

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