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Detached America building houses in postwar suburbia / James A. Jacobs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, James A., 1974-
- Series:
- MidCentury : Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Construction industry--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Construction industry.
- Suburban life--United States--History--20th century.
- Suburban life.
- Suburban homes--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Suburban homes.
- Home ownership--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Home ownership.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- This vast and long-lived collaboration between government and business--fueled by millions of homeowners--established the financial mechanisms, consumer framework, domestic ideologies, and architectural precedents that permanently altered the geographic and demographic landscape of the nation.
- Contents:
- The housing industry reinvented
- The imagined consumer
- Livability in the minimum house
- Casual living
- The zoned house.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813937625
- 0813937620
- OCLC:
- 914255815
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