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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)

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In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago within the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American birthday party 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 trying out ground for American values. Neither a natural progression nor an inevitable outcome, the appropriate 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 unusual house owners—African American and white, affluent and working class—City of American Dreams provides a richly detailed picture of life in certainly one of The united states’s great urban centers. Garb shows that the pursuit of a single-circle of relatives house set on a tidy yard, frequently seen as the very essence of the American dream, resulted from clashes of interests and decades of struggle.

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