This book is a practical handbook on tenement reform in America. Written and researched by the New York City Tenement Department Commissioner, the handbook provides recommendations for improving conditions in tenement housing, as well as practices to avoid.

LAWRENCE VEILLER was secretary of the New York State Tenement House Commission, and First Deputy Tenement Commissioner of the Tenement Department of New York City.

Carrying Out the City Plan presents the practical variations in different parts of the United States in acquiring land for public purposes and the distribution of cost for public improvements. Particular focus is placed on the design and execution of such municipal improvements as parks, playgrounds, public squares, parkways, streets, the placing of public buildings and the improvement of their grounds.

FLAVEL SHURTLEFF, Boston Bar

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects

This report, published in 1908, is made up of two articles. The first explores the problem of the decreasing population in rural areas, resulting in lowered social and health conditions and making these areas unhospitable for raising children. The second is a guide for organizing and carrying out a Field Day or Play Festival in country districts.

MYRON T. SCUDDER, principal, State Normal School, New Paltz, N.Y.

This report is the result of a survey of the health and housing conditions in Ithaca, NY in February 1914.

FRANZ SCHNEIDER, JR. was sanitarian at the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.

The Newburgh survey project was undertaken by the Foundation's Department of Surveys and Exhibits in 1913 in order to learn significant facts of living conditions in the community, to make recommendations where corrective action is needed, and to acquaint the general citizenship with both facts and needs.

ZENAS L. POTTER, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

CONTRIBUTORS: Franklin Zeiger, Zenas L. Potter, Franz Schneider, Amy Woods, Frederick W. Jenkins, Margaret F. Byington, Edward F. Brown, D. O. Decker.

A 1912 report on the results of a schools survey taken to obtain data on evening "social center" activities hosted.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A volume of the Russell Sage Foundation's Social Work Series, written in 1918.  The book is primarily a home economics study of how low-income households of the time managed money.

FLORENCE NESBITT was director of the food conservation section of the Cleveland Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense.

Reports published by the foundation's Department of Recreation in 1913.

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This handbook, published in 1922, serves as an introduction to zoning, covering the spread of the movement, the reasons for zoning, the experiences of various zoned cities, and the legal pitfalls, with a discussion of the theory of community land planning legislation.

EDWARD M. BASSETT was chairman of the Zoning Committee of New York.

This 1935 pamphlet from the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation details the investigation of American city school systems in 1913 to gather facts concerning the boys in these schools from kindergarten to the last year in high school and the fathers of these boys, to secure a more definite fact basis in the field of industrial education.

LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.