City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919.(Book review)

Journal of Social History | June 22, 2009| | Copyright

City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919. By Margaret Garb (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xv plus 261 pp. $40).

How did suburban-style home-ownership come to be seen as an American dream, Margaret Garb asks in this thoughtful, well-written, and important study of Chicagoans' ideas about housing at the turn of the twentieth century. Americans did not always value property-ownership as an investment, she asserts. Between 1871 and 1919, Garb traces an important shift from viewing homes as a productive ...

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