📚 Slums

The crowded quarter as subject: from the City of London surveys to the photographic reform campaigns.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject slums in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	How the other half lives	Jacob A. Riis	1890	119
	The battle with the slum	Jacob A. Riis	1902	28
	Behind the beautiful forevers	Katherine Boo	2011	13
	Street corner society	Whyte, William Foote	1943	11
	The Human Side of Urban Renewal	Martin Millspaugh	1958	8
	Slum Tourism	Fabian Frenzel	2012	8
	Squatters As Developers?	Vinit Mukhija	2003	6
	Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South	Sylvia Chant	2015	6
	The progressives and the slums	Roy Lubove	1961	5
	The Classic Slum	Roberts, Robert	1971	5
	No room to live, the plaint of overcrowded London	George Haw	1899	4
	The social order of the slum	Gerald D. Suttles	1968	4
	Government and slum housing	Lawrence M. Friedman	1968	4
	The poverty of revolution	Susan Eckstein	1972	4
	War against slums	T. Speake	1930	3
	I lived in a slum	Ada Elizabeth Chesterton	1936	3
	Our housing jungle--and your pocketbook	Oscar H. Steiner	1960	3
	The tenement landlord	George Sternlieb	1966	3
	The block	Herb Goro	1970	3
	A família nos musseques de Luanda	Ramiro Ladeiro Monteiro	1973	3
	Life and labour in a Bombay slum	Jeremy Seabrook	1987	3
	Dimensions of urban problems in North-east	Nandini Chakravarty Singh	2008	3
	La ciudad horizontal	Stefano Portelli	2015	3
	Some slums in Boston	Harold Kelsey Estabrook	1898	2
	New homes for a new deal	Mayer, Albert.	1933	2
	Housing Act, 1930	Great Britain. Ministry of Health	1934	2
	Adventures of a slum fighter	Charles F. Palmer	1955	2
	The tenement landlord	George Sternlieb	1966	2
	Villeros y villas miseria	Hugo Ratier	1971	2
	The making of a slum	Michael Dorman	1972	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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