Manhood factories : YMCA architecture and the making of modern urban culture / Paula Lupkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lupkin, Paula.

Series:

Architecture, landscape, and American culture series.

Architecture, landscape, and American culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young Men's Christian associations--Buildings.

Young Men's Christian associations.

Architecture--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Architecture.

Architecture and society--United States.

Architecture and society.

Space (Architecture)--United States.

Space (Architecture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction: the YMCA and the cultural landscape of modernity

Reconciling morality and mammon: a Christian club for clerks

Inventing the YMCA building

Accepting the call to build: architectural evangelism on Main Street

Bedrooms, billiards, and basketball: retooling the YMCA

From Greensboro to China: YMCA architecture as international business

Influences radiate.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-7064-1

OCLC:

664232513