194X : architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American home front / Andrew M. Shanken.

Main entry:

Shanken, Andrew Michael, 1968-

Title & Author:

194X : architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American home front / Andrew M. Shanken.

Publication:

Description:

x, 254 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

Architecture, landscape, and American culture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

Summary:

During the Second World War, American architecture was in a state of crisis. The rationing of building materials and restrictions on nonmilitary construction continued the privations that the profession had endured during the Great Depression. At the same time, the dramatic events of the 1930s and 1940s led many architects to believe that their profession--and society itself--would undergo a profound shift once the war ended, with private commissions giving way to centrally planned projects. The magazine Architectural Forum coined the term "194X" to encapsulate this wartime vision of postwar architecture and urbanism -- cover.

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ISBN:

9780816653652 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0816653658 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780816653669 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0816653666 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

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.
Architecture et société États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Planification.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
Architecture and society
Architecture Planning
City planning
Social conditions
Heimatfront
Stadtplanung
Weltkrieg
United States Social conditions 1945-
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1945-
United States
USA

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History

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Architecture, landscape, and American culture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261346
Call No.: BIB 192350
Status: Available

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