Very interesting article on farms vs. factories, urban vs. rural and their place in American history. Read it!
The twentieth century incarnation of the American Dream wasn’t just a set of ideas about home ownership. It was a way of life: domestic bliss in the burbs. But the differences between the Suburban Dream and the older American Dream based on the single family farm tell us a lot about the problems Americans face now — and help us begin to think constructively about where we need to go next.