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Subtitle: architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American home front
By: Andrew M. Shanken.
Series: Architecture, landscape, and American culture series
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780816653652; 9780816653669
Subjects: Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Architecture -- United States -- Planning; Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Other titles: Architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American home front
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: planning the postwar architect; title: The culture of planning: the rhetoric and imagery of home front anticipation; title: Old cities, new frontiers: mature economy theory and the language of renewal; title: Advertising nothing, anticipating nowhere: architects and consumer culture; title: The end of planning: the building boom and the invention of normalcy; title: Afterword; title: Appendix: wartime advertising campaigns.