Garden Apartments : The History of a Low-Rent Utopia (Historical Studies of Urban America)

Freeman, Joshua B.

University of Chicago Press（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780226841816
• DDC分類 333.3380973

Full Description

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. He details their outsized influence on housing policy and social policy as they helped upgrade living standards for working people. Inspired by the architectural innovations and socialist politics of British garden cities, Red Vienna, and German modernist housing in the 1920s, these large, centrally managed projects were mostly not public housing, but their capitalist developers worked with governments to keep down rents. The results were often relatively small apartments and large communal spaces, aimed at fostering actual American community.

Contents

Introduction
1 Utopian Roots
2 The Garden City Comes to America
3 New Deal Housing
4 The Garden Apartment Goes to War
5 Garden Apartments Everywhere
6 The Experience of Community
7 Aftermath
Conclusion: Garden Apartments and the Politics of Change

Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index