architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American home front /
First Statement of Responsibility
Andrew M. Shanken
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 254 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;
Dimensions
26 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Architecture, landscape, and American culture series
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction: planning the postwar architect -- The culture of planning: the rhetoric and imagery of home front anticipation -- Old cities, new frontiers: mature economy theory and the language of renewal -- Advertising nothing, anticipating nowhere: architects and consumer culture -- The end of planning: the building boom and the invention of normalcy -- Afterword -- Appendix: wartime advertising campaigns
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Architecture and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century
Architecture-- United States-- History-- 20th century
Architecture-- United States-- Planning
City planning-- United States-- History-- 20th century