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Families against the city

middle class homes of industrial Chicago

by Richard Sennett

1974 258 pages eng

Families against the City portrays the life styles of middle class families in a Chicago community during the decades following the Civil War, when major American cities were experiencing massive development. The study focuses on Union Park, a section of Chicago that had been wealthy and elegant in …

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