The recent housing market crash shattered Americans' boundless faith in home ownership. "City of American Dreams" is an innovative history of our national obsession with real estate. Margaret Garb reveals that the aspiration for single-family home ownership was forged in impoverished immigrant neighborhoods in industrializing cities. It was late nineteenth-century health and housing reformers who, along with the talented marketing of real estate developers, transformed an immigrant ideal into a mark of the middle class and ...
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The recent housing market crash shattered Americans' boundless faith in home ownership. "City of American Dreams" is an innovative history of our national obsession with real estate. Margaret Garb reveals that the aspiration for single-family home ownership was forged in impoverished immigrant neighborhoods in industrializing cities. It was late nineteenth-century health and housing reformers who, along with the talented marketing of real estate developers, transformed an immigrant ideal into a mark of the middle class and the American Dream. After 1900, the pursuit of home ownership was inextricably linked to growing racial segregation in northern cities, ultimately leading to the emergence of urban landscapes sharply divided by race and class. Garb demonstrates that the very essence of the American Dream - the single-family house set on a tidy yard - was neither natural nor an inevitable expression of American identity. Rather, it resulted from decades of struggle among homeowners, builders, developers, reformers, and policy makers.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 261 p. Historical Studies of Urban America. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2005007798 Type of material Book Personal name Garb, Margaret. Main title City of American dreams: a history of home ownership and housing reform in Chicago, 1871-1919 / Margaret Garb. Published/Created Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, c2005. Description xv, 261 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm. ISBN 0226282090 (cloth: alk. paper) LC classification HD7287.82. U62 C64 2005 Contents Equal rights, equal property--Staking a claim in the industrializing city--Health, morality, and housing--Cleanliness and capital investments--Selling health, independence, and home ownership--Reforming the family home and improving neighborhoods--Drawing the "color line": the roots of residential segregation. Subjects Home ownership--Illinois--Chicago--History. Housing--Illinois--Chicago--History. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-251) and index. Dewey class no. 643/.12 Geographic area code n-us-il
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