The working man's reward : Chicago's early suburbs and the roots of American sprawl
Lewinnek, ElaineAuthor
Between the 1860s and 1920s, Chicago's working-class immigrants designed the American dream of home-ownership, viewing homes as a consumer-oriented respite from work and a productive space they hoped to control. Spurred by ideas about the gendered respectability of domesticity, early city planning and land economics, Chicagoans helped create America's suburbanisation. This work shows how Chicagoans helped form America's urban sprawl and examines the roots of America's suburbanisation, synthesizing the new suburban history into the diversity of America's suburbs.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Between the 1860s and 1920s, Chicago's working-class immigrants designed the American dream of home-ownership, viewing homes as a consumer-oriented respite from work and a productive space they hoped to control. Spurred by ideas about the gendered respectability of domesticity, early city planning and land economics, Chicagoans helped create America's suburbanisation. This work shows how Chicagoans helped form America's urban sprawl and examines the roots of America's suburbanisation, synthesizing the new suburban history into the diversity of America's suburbs.
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Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Chicago is America's Dream, Writ Large": Forging the Suburban Dream in Early Chicago -- 1. "Vast and Sudden Municipality": Boosting and Lamenting Chicago's Growth -- 2. "Domestic and Respectable": Property-Owner Politics after the Great Chicago Fire -- 3. Lake and Jungle: The Assembly-line Factory as a Force for Suburbanization -- 4. "Better than a Bank for a Poor Man": Worker's Strategies for Home Financing -- 5. Mapping Chicago, Imagining Metropolises: Reconsidering the Zonal Model of Urban Growth -- 6. The Mortgages of Whiteness: Chicago's Race Riots of 1919 -- Conclusion: The City of the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Home ownership
American Dream
Working class
Immigrants
Racism
Business & Economics
Real Estate, Housing & Land Use