Shanken, Andrew M.
194X : Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front. - 1 online resource (279 pages) - Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture . - Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Planning the Postwar Architect -- 1. The Culture of Planning: The Rhetoric and Imagery of Home Front Anticipation -- 2. Old Cities, New Frontiers: Mature Economy Theory and the Language of Renewal -- 3. Advertising Nothing, Anticipating Nowhere: Architects and Consumer Culture -- 4. The End of Planning: The Building Boom and the Invention of Normalcy -- Afterword -- Appendix: Wartime Advertising Campaigns -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
In a major study of American architecture during World War II, Andrew M. Shanken focuses on the culture of anticipation that arose in this period, as out-of-work architects turned their energies from the built to the unbuilt, redefining themselves as planners and creating original designs to excite the public about postwar architecture. Shanken recasts the wartime era as a crucible for the intermingling of modernist architecture.
9780816668076
Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture -- United States -- Planning.
Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-.
Electronic books.
NA2543.S6 -- S53 2009eb
307.1/216097309045
194X : Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front. - 1 online resource (279 pages) - Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture . - Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Planning the Postwar Architect -- 1. The Culture of Planning: The Rhetoric and Imagery of Home Front Anticipation -- 2. Old Cities, New Frontiers: Mature Economy Theory and the Language of Renewal -- 3. Advertising Nothing, Anticipating Nowhere: Architects and Consumer Culture -- 4. The End of Planning: The Building Boom and the Invention of Normalcy -- Afterword -- Appendix: Wartime Advertising Campaigns -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
In a major study of American architecture during World War II, Andrew M. Shanken focuses on the culture of anticipation that arose in this period, as out-of-work architects turned their energies from the built to the unbuilt, redefining themselves as planners and creating original designs to excite the public about postwar architecture. Shanken recasts the wartime era as a crucible for the intermingling of modernist architecture.
9780816668076
Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture -- United States -- Planning.
Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-.
Electronic books.
NA2543.S6 -- S53 2009eb
307.1/216097309045