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Lane, Barbara Miller author.
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Suburban homes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Housing development -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Houses for a new wor...
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Houses for a new world : builders and buyers in American suburbs, 1945-1965 / Barbara Miller Lane.
by
Lane, Barbara Miller author.
Subjects
Suburban
homes
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Housing development
--
Social aspects
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Architecture and society
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Publisher Info:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Description:
xi, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
RDA Types:
text
still image
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780691167619
0691167613
Contents:
Paraphrases of original buyers' recollections
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New houses and new communities
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West Coast builders: Los Angeles and Orange County
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East Coast builders: Philadelphia and Boston
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The builders of Chicago's Golden Corridor: Midwestern ranches and splits
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The buyers, their backgrounds, and their preferences
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Houses and suburbs transformed
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Appendix 1. Chronological list of Campanelli developments, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
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Appendix 2. Stoltzner business
history
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Appendix 3. Interviews with original buyers or their children.
Format Book:
Summary:
While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in
homes
built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract houses of America's postwar suburbs represent the twentieth
century
's most successful experiment in mass housing. Houses for a New World is the first comprehensive
history
of this uniquely American form of domestic architecture and urbanism. Between 1945 and 1965, more than thirteen million houses-most of them in new ranch and split-level styles-were constructed on large expanses of land outside city centers, providing
homes
for the country's rapidly expanding population. Focusing on twelve developments in the suburbs of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Barbara Miller Lane tells the story of the collaborations between builders and buyers, showing how both wanted houses and communities that espoused a modern way of life-informal, democratic, multiethnic, and devoted to improving the lives of their children. The resulting houses differed dramatically from both the European International Style and older forms of American domestic architecture. Based on a decade of original research, and accompanied by hundreds of historical images, plans, and maps, this book presents an entirely new interpretation of the American suburb. The result is a fascinating
history
of houses and developments that continue to shape how tens of millions of Americans live.
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