Erin Eckhold Sassin is Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Middlebury College, USA. Her research focuses on modern architecture and urban culture in Germany and the United States, with a particular interest in how class, gender, and ethnicity inform the built environment. Her most recent work deals with the everyday tragedy of the First World War and the production of architecture within the state of emergency, as well as the intersection of Acoustic Ecology and Architectural History.

This insightful study is a must-read for everyone interested in creative approaches to one of the major social crises of the modern age—providing decent, affordable housing for single people living on their own in industrialized cities.

• Introduction: The Unmarried Individual and the “Lodger Problem”1. Adolph Kolping’s Revolution: Popular Catholicism and Housing “Wild” Youth2. Beyond the Company Town: Industrialists House the “Roving Male”3. Making the Municipality a Home: Appropriate Luxury for All4. Homes for Women: Between the Domestic Realm and the Public SphereExtended Conclusion: Weimar Twilight and Continued Relevance of the Ledigenheim Building Type

Erin Eckhold Sassin is Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Middlebury College, USA. Her research focuses on modern architecture and urban culture in Germany and the United States, with a particular interest in how class, gender, and ethnicity inform the built environment. Her most recent work deals with the everyday tragedy of the First World War and the production of architecture within the state of emergency, as well as the intersection of Acoustic Ecology and Architectural History.

This insightful study is a must-read for everyone interested in creative approaches to one of the major social crises of the modern age—providing decent, affordable housing for single people living on their own in industrialized cities.

• Introduction: The Unmarried Individual and the “Lodger Problem”1. Adolph Kolping’s Revolution: Popular Catholicism and Housing “Wild” Youth2. Beyond the Company Town: Industrialists House the “Roving Male”3. Making the Municipality a Home: Appropriate Luxury for All4. Homes for Women: Between the Domestic Realm and the Public SphereExtended Conclusion: Weimar Twilight and Continued Relevance of the Ledigenheim Building Type

Erin Eckhold Sassin is Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Middlebury College, USA. Her research focuses on modern architecture and urban culture in Germany and the United States, with a particular interest in how class, gender, and ethnicity inform the built environment. Her most recent work deals with the everyday tragedy of the First World War and the production of architecture within the state of emergency, as well as the intersection of Acoustic Ecology and Architectural History.

This insightful study is a must-read for everyone interested in creative approaches to one of the major social crises of the modern age—providing decent, affordable housing for single people living on their own in industrialized cities.

• Introduction: The Unmarried Individual and the “Lodger Problem”1. Adolph Kolping’s Revolution: Popular Catholicism and Housing “Wild” Youth2. Beyond the Company Town: Industrialists House the “Roving Male”3. Making the Municipality a Home: Appropriate Luxury for All4. Homes for Women: Between the Domestic Realm and the Public SphereExtended Conclusion: Weimar Twilight and Continued Relevance of the Ledigenheim Building Type