New Deal utopias / Jason Reblando ; texts, Natasha Egan, Robert Leighninger, Jr.

Main entry:

Reblando, Jason, photographer.

Title & Author:

New Deal utopias / Jason Reblando ; texts, Natasha Egan, Robert Leighninger, Jr.

Publication:

Heidelberg : Kehrer, [2017]
©2017

Description:

175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 29 cm

Notes:
Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references.
Envisioning utopia / Natasha Egan -- New Deal utopias -- America's garden cities / Robert Leighninger, Jr.

Summary:

New Deal Utopias' explores three planned communities built by the US government during the Great Depression, collectively known as Greenbelt Towns. The photographs of the built environments and landscapes of Greenbelt, Maryland, Greenhills, Ohio, and Greendale, Wisconsin, evoke utopia both as an idea and place in the American mind. The towns were designed to be model cities to address the social and economic discrepancies brought on and accentuated by the Great Depression. In the 1930s, the program was critiqued as socialistic and communistic by conservative members of Congress, industrial and corporate leaders, and newspapers hostile to New Deal policies, yet they still managed to make an indelible impression on urbanist ideas in America. This book emphasizes that the Greenbelt towns are an overlooked, but crucial part of the American landscape, as we continue to grapple with the complex roles of housing, nature, and government in contemporary life.

ISBN:

9783868287905 (hardcover)
3868287906 (hardcover)

Subject:

United States. Resettlement Administration History Pictorial works.
United States. Resettlement Administration.
New Deal (1933-1939)
Photography, Artistic.
Documentary photography.
Planned communities United States Pictorial works.
City planning United States History 20th century Pictorial works.
New Deal, 1933-1939 Pictorial works.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie documentaire.
Collectivités nouvelles États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
New Deal Ouvrages illustrés.
art photography.
documentary photography.
New Deal, 1933-1939
City planning.
Planned communities.
Social conditions.
Garden cities United States.
United States Social conditions 21st century Pictorial works.
États-Unis Conditions sociales 21e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
United States.
United States Social conditions Pictorial works

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
History.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Leighninger, Robert D., 1941- writer of added text.
Egan, Natasha, writer of added text.
Leighninger, Robert D., 1941- author of added text.
Egan, Natasha author of added text.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297944
Call No.: BIB 244256
Status: Available

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