Beyond technical research May also published two magazines and embarked on a significant public-relations project, with films and classes and public exhibitions, to make acceptable to the public. In the late 1920s the principles of equal access to ('light, air and sun') and the social effects of a state-guaranteed ("minimum subsistence level") became a matter of lively popular debate all over Germany. One indirect result of this publicity was the American housing movement: a young Catherine Bauer attended one of May's conferences in 1930, and wrote her influential book "Modern Housing" (1934) based on research done in Frankfurt and with Dutch architect .