194X [electronic resource] : architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American home front / Andrew M. Shanken.
Series: Architecture, landscape, and American culture seriesPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.Description: x, 254 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 307.1/216097309045 22
- NA2543.S6 S53 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and index.
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.
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