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Detached America : building houses in postwar suburbia / James A. Jacobs.
Fine Arts Library HD7287.82.U6 J33 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, James A., 1974- author.
- Series:
- Midcentury (Charlottesville, Va.)
- Midcentury : Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Home ownership--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Home ownership.
- Suburban homes--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Suburban homes.
- Suburban life--United States--History--20th century.
- Suburban life.
- Construction industry--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Construction industry.
- Construction industry--Social aspects.
- Home ownership--Social aspects.
- Suburban homes--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 261 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- The housing industry reinvented
- The imagined consumer
- Livability in the minimum house
- Casual living
- The zoned house.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813937618
- 0813937612
- OCLC:
- 899138046
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