194X : Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front.

By: Shanken, Andrew MMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Architecture, Landscape, and American CulturePublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816668076Subject(s): 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-Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: 194X : Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home FrontDDC classification: 307.1/216097309045 LOC classification: NA2543.S6 -- S53 2009ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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