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Building Louisiana : the legacy of the Public Works Administration /
Robert D. Leighninger, Jr., believes there may be a model for municipal building projects everywhere in the ambitious and artful structures erected in Louisiana by the Public Works Administration. In the 1930s, the PWA built a tremendous amount of infrastructure in a very short time. Most of the edi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Robert D. Leighninger, Jr., believes there may be a model for municipal building projects everywhere in the ambitious and artful structures erected in Louisiana by the Public Works Administration. In the 1930s, the PWA built a tremendous amount of infrastructure in a very short time. Most of the edifices are still in use, yet few people recognize how these schools, courthouses, and other great structures came about. Building Louisiana documents the projects one New Deal agency erected in one southern state and places these in social and political context. Based on extensive research in the Nat. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxx, 298 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-290) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604731545 1604731540 1283210401 9781283210409 9786613210401 6613210404 |