Manhood Factories : YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture /

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Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, the Young Men's Christian Association built more than a thousand community centers across the United States and in major cities around the world. Dubbed "manhood factories" by Teddy Roosevelt, these iconic buildings served as athletic ce...

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Auteur principal: Lupkin, Paula (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
YMCA of the USA.
YMCA of the USA > Buildings.
Space (Architecture)
Buildings.
Architecture > Moral and ethical aspects.
Architecture and society.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Religious.
Espace (Architecture) > États-Unis.
Architecture et societe > États-Unis.
Space (Architecture) > United States.
Architecture and society > United States.
Architecture > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, the Young Men's Christian Association built more than a thousand community centers across the United States and in major cities around the world. Dubbed "manhood factories" by Teddy Roosevelt, these iconic buildings served as athletic centers and residential facilities for a rapidly growing urban male population. In Manhood Factories, Paula Lupkin goes behind the reserved Beaux-Arts facades of typical YMCA buildings constructed in this period to understand the urban anxieties, moral agendas, and conceptions of masculinity that guided their design
Description matérielle:1 online resource (312 pages): illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
ISBN:9780816670642

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