But there is little evidence of landslide risk or dangerous overcrowding; 98 percent of Providência's homes are made of sturdy brick and concrete and 90 percent have more than three rooms.
"The affordability of the pianos, the disposable income of Detroit's working class, and the fact that it was a city of single-family homes – mile after mile of sturdy brick two-storey houses with commodious first-floor rooms into which pianos could be moved easily – all played roles," Maraniss says.
On the North Side of Chicago, in the predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood of Lincoln Square, a pleasing grid of sturdy brick homes on leafy streets, parents in need found help at the Lutheran Memorial Church.
With the profits from the C.D.O.s, shielded from excessive government taxation by a series of perfectly legal multi-layer transactions that routed the assets through a shell company in the Cayman Islands, the third pig built his house out of sturdy bricks.
Moments before the atomic bomb was dropped, my mother's friend happened to seek shelter from the bright summer sunlight in the shadow of a sturdy brick wall, and she watched from there as two children who had been playing out in the open were vaporized in the blink of an eye.
SNACKING on pastries and tea at her cloth-covered dining table, Leepee Joseph, 95, worked to put into words the odd experience of seeing her longtime home, a light-filled apartment on the eighth floor of a sturdy brick building on West 10th Street in Greenwich Village, recreated onstage in the play "4000 Miles".
Even the dome of his sturdy brick kiln, on an adjacent patio, sports decorative ceramic trim.
Samuel J. LeFrak, the voluble patriarch of New York's most prolific real estate family, often declared, "We serve the mass, not the class," during the five decades he presided over an empire of apartments in sturdy brick buildings from Queens to Manhattan, office towers on both sides of the Hudson River, and oil wells in Louisiana.
For the low, low price of $111,304, they commissioned a sturdy brick box of two stories, three bedrooms and 1,825 square feet.
With their blocks upon blocks of hundred-year-old sturdy, brick apartment buildings, decorated with zigzagging metal fire escapes, the two upper Manhattan neighborhoods have long been the home to working class and immigrant communities who have enjoyed affordable, quality lives for a century.
New Orleans East This area on the southern shore of Lake Pontchartrain is dense with sturdy brick homes.
