Shanken, Andrew Michael, 1968-

194X architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American home front / [electronic resource] : Andrew M. Shanken. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009. - x, 254 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). - Architecture, landscape, and American culture series . - Architecture, landscape, and American culture series. .

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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Architecture and society--History--United States--20th century.
Architecture--Planning.--United States
Architecture--History--United States--20th century.
City planning--History--United States--20th century.


United States--Social conditions--1945-


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