America's Original GI Town
Subtitle: Park Forest, Illinois (Creating the North American Landscape)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780801877520
Subjects: Urban & municipal planning; United States - State & Local - Midwest; Landscape; History - U.S.; Architecture; Illinois; USA; History - Specific Styles; Social History; Architecture / Landscape; Planning
First sentence: THE unquenchable optimism of Americans for their future, after World War II, was the result of years of economic and social trials that would have torn other countries apart.