194X architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American home front /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shanken, Andrew Michael, 1968-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
Series:Architecture, landscape, and American culture series.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.