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City of American Dreams: A History of Home…
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City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919 (Historical Studies of Urban America) (utgåvan 2005)

av Margaret Garb (Författare)

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In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing visions of capitalists, reformers, and immigrants turned the urban landscape into a testing ground for American values. Neither a natural progression nor an inevitable outcome, the ideal of home ownership emerged from the struggles of industrializing cities. Garb skillfully narrates these struggles, showing how the American infatuation with home ownership left the nation's cities sharply divided along class and racial lines. Based on research of real estate markets, housing and health reform, and ordinary homeowners--African American and white, affluent and working class--City of American Dreams provides a richly detailed picture of life in one of America's great urban centers. Garb shows that the pursuit of a single-family house set on a tidy yard, commonly seen as the very essence of the American dream, resulted from clashes of interests and decades of struggle.… (mer)
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Titel:City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Författare:Margaret Garb (Författare)
Info:University of Chicago Press (2005), Edition: 1st, First Printing, 256 pages
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City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919 av Margaret Garb

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The late Maggie Garb was probably a better writer than I deserved editing a newspaper real estate section, but I indulged her interest in the evolution of Chicago neighborhoods. Garb left freelance writing for academia, breaking ground with this history of homeownership after the Chicago fire. Real estate then was prone to speculation and by no means an assured path to wealth. But immigrant families saw it as a security they could borrow against, carpenters found a good living as small-time builders, and developers learned how efficiency and marketing could scale their business. As the city grew, government set winners and losers early on by where they extended sewer lines, health reformers saw the move from tenements to tracts as unalloyed public good, and patterns of segregation began to set in place. With wealth inequality growing wider, it's fascinating to see how the gap opened up, and the progress of home ownership toward its hallowed position.
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In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing visions of capitalists, reformers, and immigrants turned the urban landscape into a testing ground for American values. Neither a natural progression nor an inevitable outcome, the ideal of home ownership emerged from the struggles of industrializing cities. Garb skillfully narrates these struggles, showing how the American infatuation with home ownership left the nation's cities sharply divided along class and racial lines. Based on research of real estate markets, housing and health reform, and ordinary homeowners--African American and white, affluent and working class--City of American Dreams provides a richly detailed picture of life in one of America's great urban centers. Garb shows that the pursuit of a single-family house set on a tidy yard, commonly seen as the very essence of the American dream, resulted from clashes of interests and decades of struggle.

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