America's original GI town
Subtitle: Park Forest, Illinois
By: Gregory C. Randall.
Series: Creating the North American landscape
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: New towns -- United States -- Case studies.; Park Forest (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century.; Park Forest (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "In this book, Gregory Randall presents the history of the planning, design, construction, and growth of Park Forest. He shows how planners - who dubbed the new community a "GI town" - drew on lessons learned from English garden cities and New Deal greenbelt towns to cope with America's emerging peacetime housing crisis. He also shows how this new town changed community planning throughout the United States, including its effects on community development up to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-227) and index.