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Author Shanken, Andrew Michael, 1968-

Title 194X [electronic resource] : architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American home front / Andrew M. Shanken.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

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Description x, 254 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).
Series Architecture, landscape, and American culture series
Architecture, landscape, and American culture series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture -- United States -- Planning.
Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780816653652 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0816653658 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780816653669 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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