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Heather Barrow's book is thoroughly researched, insightful, and accessible. . . . [It] makes an excellent read not only in historical geography seminars, but also in courses on urban form and race/ethnicity studies. --Journal of Historical Geography [Barrow] skillfully weaves together the historical, economic, and geographic literature with archival sources, including workers' oral histories. . . . Barrow's book will be of use to historians and economists, both students and professionals, interested in the history of Ford, Detroit, and Dearborn, and the interplay of economics and geography in that history. --Journal of Economic History Barrow's insightful research brilliantly reevaluates the objectives of welfare capitalism and the origins of suburbanization. This timely and erudite volume is essential reading for understanding the metropolitization of Detroit. --The Michigan Historical Review This is an engaging book that is a welcome contribution to the literature. Scholars of history and urban studies will greatly appreciate because it reveals a more complex historiography of the process of suburbanization. --Housing Studies An original and significant piece of scholarship. Barrow has taken suburban history in an interesting new direction. [Her] research is excellent. This book would be interesting to both urban historians and labor historians because Barrow straddles the worlds of workers and Dearborn's place in suburban history very effectively. Nonacademic audiences in southeast Michigan would also find the book engaging and informative. --John McCarthy, author of Making Milwaukee Mightier: Planning and the Politics of Growth, 1910-1960 (NIU Press, 2009) This is an important and insightful book. Not only does Barrow provide a new perspective on Henry Ford and his role in urban planning, she sets the process of suburbanization within the context of race, class, and public transportation, suggesting the cost of the American dream for some was a divided metropolis and in the case of greater Detroit, a hollowed-out core. --Middle West Review

Heather Barrow's book is thoroughly researched, insightful, and accessible.... [It] makes an excellent read not only in historical geography seminars, but also in courses on urban form and race/ethnicity studies. -Journal of Historical Geography [Barrow] skillfully weaves together the historical, economic, and geographic literature with archival sources, including workers' oral histories.... Barrow's book will be of use to historians and economists, both students and professionals, interested in the history of Ford, Detroit, and Dearborn, and the interplay of economics and geography in that history. -Journal of Economic History Barrow's insightful research brilliantly reevaluates the objectives of welfare capitalism and the origins of suburbanization. This timely and erudite volume is essential reading for understanding the metropolitization of Detroit. -The Michigan Historical Review This is an engaging book that is a welcome contribution to the literature. Scholars of history and urban studies will greatly appreciate because it reveals a more complex historiography of the process of suburbanization. -Housing Studies An original and significant piece of scholarship. Barrow has taken suburban history in an interesting new direction. [Her] research is excellent. This book would be interesting to both urban historians and labor historians because Barrow straddles the worlds of workers and Dearborn's place in suburban history very effectively. Nonacademic audiences in southeast Michigan would also find the book engaging and informative. -John McCarthy, author of Making Milwaukee Mightier: Planning and the Politics of Growth, 1910-1960 (NIU Press, 2009) This is an important and insightful book. Not only does Barrow provide a new perspective on Henry Ford and his role in urban planning, she sets the process of suburbanization within the context of race, class, and public transportation, suggesting the cost of the American dream for some was a divided metropolis and in the case of greater Detroit, a hollowed-out core. -Middle West Review

Heather Barrow's book is thoroughly researched, insightful, and accessible. . . . [It] makes an excellent read not only in historical geography seminars, but also in courses on urban form and race/ethnicity studies. --Journal of Historical Geography [Barrow] skillfully weaves together the historical, economic, and geographic literature with archival sources, including workers' oral histories. . . . Barrow's book will be of use to historians and economists, both students and professionals, interested in the history of Ford, Detroit, and Dearborn, and the interplay of economics and geography in that history. --Journal of Economic History Barrow's insightful research brilliantly reevaluates the objectives of welfare capitalism and the origins of suburbanization. This timely and erudite volume is essential reading for understanding the metropolitization of Detroit. --The Michigan Historical Review This is an engaging book that is a welcome contribution to the literature. Scholars of history and urban studies will greatly appreciate because it reveals a more complex historiography of the process of suburbanization. --Housing Studies An original and significant piece of scholarship. Barrow has taken suburban history in an interesting new direction. [Her] research is excellent. This book would be interesting to both urban historians and labor historians because Barrow straddles the worlds of workers and Dearborn's place in suburban history very effectively. Nonacademic audiences in southeast Michigan would also find the book engaging and informative. --John McCarthy, author of Making Milwaukee Mightier: Planning and the Politics of Growth, 1910-1960 (NIU Press, 2009)

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Heather B. Barrow received her PhD from the University of Chicago. She has taught history and public policy at Indiana University Northwest, Loyola University Chicago, and Northwestern University. She was also a project director with the architecture department at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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