194X : Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front /

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During the Second World War, American architecture was in a state of crisis. The rationing of building materials and restrictions on nonmilitary construction continued the privations that the profession had endured during the Great Depression. At the same time, the dramatic events of the 1930s and 1...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shanken, Andrew Michael, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Stadtplanung
Social conditions
City planning.
Architecture > Planning.
Architecture and society.
Architecture.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Regional Planning.
Architecture > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Architecture > États-Unis > Planification.
Architecture et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
City planning > United States > History > 20th century.
Architecture > United States > History > 20th century.
Architecture > United States > Planning.
Architecture and society > United States > History > 20th century.
USA.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1945-
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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