Indoor America : the interior landscape of postwar suburbia /

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"Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls-- These are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia. Indoor America explores the history of suburbanization through the emergence of such spaces in the postwar years, ezamining their design...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vesentini, Andrea, 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Series:Midcentury (Charlottesville, Va.)
Subjects:
1900-1999
Architecture and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Space (Architecture) > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Suburban life > United States > History > 20th century.
Suburbs > United States > History > 20th century.
Architecture et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Espace (Architecture) > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Vie de la banlieue > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
Architecture and society.
Space (Architecture) > Social aspects.
Suburban life.
Suburbs.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Together and apart : encapsulation and the automobile
  • The house of anxiety : introversion in domestic design
  • The lump in the garden : the fallout shelter and the inhumation of everyday life
  • It's cool inside : advertising the social thermodynamics of air-conditioning
  • A vista of one's own : glass walls, picture windows, and the interiorization of the outdoors
  • From Southdale to the Axiom : design for a better outdoors inside the mall
  • Domocracy : the life and death of great indoor cities.

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