City of American Dreams - A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Garb is associate professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis. Klappentext The housing market crash shattered Americans' boundless faith in home ownership. This title tells a history of our national obsession with real estate. It reveals that the aspiration for single-family home ownership was forged in impoverished immigrant neighborhoods in industrializing cities. Zusammenfassung The housing market crash shattered Americans' boundless faith in home ownership. This title tells a history of our national obsession with real estate. It reveals that the aspiration for single-family home ownership was forged in impoverished immigrant neighborhoods in industrializing cities.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Garb, Garb Margaret
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2011
• EAN: 9780226282107
• ISBN: 978-0-226-28210-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Historical Studies of Urban Am; Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban America (CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, Illinois, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Property & real estate, Social and cultural history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Property and real estate