Main entry:

Garb, Margaret.

Title & Author:

City of American dreams : a history of home ownership and housing reform in Chicago, 1871-1919 / Margaret Garb.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005.

Description:

xv, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Historical studies of urban America

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-251) and index.
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.

Summary:

"Margaret Garb traces the history of America's seemingly boundless infatuation with home ownership, an infatuation that left American cities sharply divided along race and class lines and had profound effects on urban, rural, and suburban landscapes in the twentieth century. City of American Dreams shows that the American celebration of a single-family house set on a tidy yard was neither natural nor inevitable."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Contributor biographical information
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Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226282090 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226282091 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Home ownership Illinois Chicago History.
Housing Illinois Chicago History.
Accession à la propriété Illinois Chicago Histoire.
Logement Illinois Chicago Histoire.
Home ownership.
Housing.
Illinois Chicago.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Historical studies of urban America.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 244427
Call No.: BIB 174107
Status: Available