TY - GEN T1 - Houses for a new world : builders and buyers in American suburbs, 1945-1965 A1 - Lane, Barbara Miller LA - English PP - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press YR - 2015 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1336053821 AB - While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract houses of America's postwar suburbs represent the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing. Houses for a New World is the first comprehensive history of this uniquely American form of domestic architecture and urbanism. Between 1945 and 1965, more than thirteen million houses-most of them in new ranch and split-level styles-were constructed on large expanses of land outside city centers, providing homes for the country's rapidly expanding population. Focusing on twelve developments in the suburbs of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Barbara Miller Lane tells the story of the collaborations between builders and buyers, showing how both wanted houses and communities that espoused a modern way of life-informal, democratic, multiethnic, and devoted to improving the lives of their children. The resulting houses differed dramatically from both the European International Style and older forms of American domestic architecture. Based on a decade of original research, and accompanied by hundreds of historical images, plans, and maps, this book presents an entirely new interpretation of the American suburb. The result is a fascinating history of houses and developments that continue to shape how tens of millions of Americans live. OP - 305 CN - NA7571 .L37 2015eb SN - 9780691246420 SN - 0691246424 SN - 9780691167619 SN - 0691167613 KW - Suburban homes : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Housing development : Social aspects : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Architecture and society : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Promotion résidentielle : Aspect social : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Architecture et société : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning KW - Architecture and Planning. KW - Housing development : Social aspects KW - Architecture and society KW - Suburban homes KW - United States KW - History ER -