It depends on the stability of the tenement residents. The social history for this period is profuse and uneven. I never took the statistics needed to get into the primary sources; my skill is more at puncturing the assumptions that may be lurking in the write up.
There are some very interesting 'shared economy' innovations with the Modern Flats for the upscale markets. Things that a much richer society could make standard.
Steve's day is closer to 1950s Russia; now much poverty is a lack of will to be humane, then there were serious limits on production and transportation.
Re: Getting Through
Date: 2014-04-25 01:28 pm (UTC)There are some very interesting 'shared economy' innovations with the Modern Flats for the upscale markets. Things that a much richer society could make standard.
Steve's day is closer to 1950s Russia; now much poverty is a lack of will to be humane, then there were serious limits on production and transportation.