Entrée principale:

Baxandall, Rosalyn, 1939-2015.

Titre et auteur:

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

Publication:

New York, NY : Basic Books, ©2000.

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.
Dust jacket.

Résumé:

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.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0465070450
9780465070459
0465070132
9780465070138

Sujet:

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.
Suburbs New York (State)
Suburban life New York (State)
New York (State) Long Island.
United States.
USA

Vedettes secondaires:

Ewen, Elizabeth.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 211140
Cote: HT351 .B3 2000
Statut: Disponible