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Garden apartments : the history of a low-rent utopia / Joshua B. Freeman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freeman, Joshua Benjamin.
- Series:
- Historical studies of urban America.
- Historical Studies of Urban America Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Housing policy.
- Garden apartments--United States--History.
- Garden apartments.
- Garden apartments--Social aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2026
- Summary:
- How a form of multifamily housing with idealistic roots became a ubiquitous model promoted by both public entities and private developers.Eminent historian Joshua Freeman rescues garden apartments--typically low-rise multifamily residences that enclose or are surrounded by landscaped gardens--from their invisibility in the American landscape.
- Contents:
- Utopian roots
- The garden city comes to America
- New Deal housing
- The garden apartment goes to war
- Garden apartments everywhere
- The experience of community
- Aftermath
- Conclusion : garden apartments and the politics of change.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-84180-4
- 9780226841809
- OCLC:
- 1564842699
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