Detached America
Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia
During the quarter century between 1945 and 1970, Americans crafted a new manner of living that shaped and reshaped how residential builders designed and marketed millions of detached single-family suburban houses. The modest two- and three-bedroom houses built immediately following the war gave way to larger and more sophisticated houses shaped by casual living, which stressed a family's easy sociability and material comfort and were a major element in the cohesion of a greatly expanded middle class. These dwellings became the basic building blocks of explosive suburban growth during the postwar period, luring families to the metropolitan pe…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8139-3762-5
- EAN: 9780813937625
- Produktnummer: 22281982
- Verlag: University of Virginia Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'899 KB
- Abbildungen: 61 b&w illus.
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James A. Jacobs
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