TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shanken,Andrew M.
TI  - 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front
T2  - Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture
SN  - 9780816668076
AV  - NA2543.S6 -- S53 2009eb 
U1  - 307.1/216097309045 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Architecture -- United States -- Planning
KW  - Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
KW  - City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century
KW  - United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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