Picture windows : how the suburbs happened / Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen.

Main entry:

Baxandall, Rosalyn, 1939-2015.

Title & Author:

Picture windows : how the suburbs happened / Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen.

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Description:

xxii, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-289) and index.
1. The Gold Coast. --2. The second Industrial Revolution: mass production makes a dent. --3. Suburban birth pangs. --4. Housing the masses: ideas and experiments. --5. The New Deal: one third of a nation still unhoused. --6. The common good: public or private. --7. World War II: baptism by fire. --8. Postwar housing politics: the McCarthy hearings on housing. --9. Home ownership: is it sound? --10. The master builders and the creation of modern suburbia. --11. The new suburban culture: living in Levittown. --12. America, love it or levitt. --13. Suburban segregation. --14. The battle for integration. --15. Old towns, new families. --16. Utopia revisited. --17. New immigrants.

Summary:

In Picture Windows, Baxandall and Ewen shatter naive stereotypes of suburban life, replacing them with a clear and compelling historical analysis that situates the development of the suburbs in relation to the pivotal issues of postwar American life. They examine the years from World War II to the present, chronicling the transformation of rural lands into tidy, uniform subdevelopments that promised all of the comforts of postwar technology. The building of the suburbs, the authors argue, was conducted in the context of heated debates over the American standard of living, visionary planners and architects' attempts to solve the "housing crisis," women's liberation, and racial segregation.

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ISBN:

0465070450
9780465070459
0465070132
9780465070138

Subject:

Suburbs New York (State) Long Island.
Suburban life New York (State) Long Island.
Suburbs United States.
Suburban life United States.
Banlieues New York (État) Long Island.
Vie de la banlieue New York (État) Long Island.
Vie de la banlieue États-Unis.
71.14 urban society.
Suburban life.
Suburbs.
Suburbaner Raum
Suburbanisatie.
New York (State) Long Island.
United States.
USA

Added entries:

Ewen, Elizabeth.

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Location: Library main 211140
Call No.: HT351 .B3 2000
Status: Available

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