Houses for a new world : builders and buyers in American suburbs, 1945-1965 /
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 &q...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2015]
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2gs4gf1 |
Taula de continguts:
- Prologue: Paraphrases of original buyers' recollections
- New houses and new communities
- West Coast builders : Los Angeles and Orange County
- East Coast builders : Philadelphia and Boston
- The builders of Chicago's Golden Corridor : Midwestern ranches and splits
- The buyers, their backgrounds, and their preferences
- Conclusion: Houses and suburbs transformed
- Appendix 1. Chronological list of Campanelli developments, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
- Appendix 2. Stoltzner business history
- Appendix 3. Interviews with original buyers or their children.