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Book Synopsis Detached America by : James A. Jacobs
Download or read book Detached America written by James A. Jacobs and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 periphery from both crowded urban centers and the rural hinterlands. Detached America is the first book with a national scope to explore the design and marketing of postwar houses. James A. Jacobs shows how these houses physically document national trends in domestic space and record a remarkably uniform spatial evolution that can be traced throughout the country. Favorable government policies, along with such widely available print media as trade journals, home design magazines, and newspapers, permitted builders to establish a strong national presence and to make a more standardized product available to prospective buyers everywhere. This vast and long-lived collaboration between government and business—fueled by millions of homeowners—established the financial mechanisms, consumer framework, domestic ideologies, and architectural precedents that permanently altered the geographic and demographic landscape of the nation.
Book Synopsis Housing America in the 1980s by : John S. Adams
Download or read book Housing America in the 1980s written by John S. Adams and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1988-05-16 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing provides shelter, in a variety of forms, but it is also resonant with meaning on many other levels--as a financial asset, a status symbol, an expression of private aspirations and identities, a means of inclusion or exclusion, and finally as a battleground for social change. John Adams' impressive new study explores this complex topic in all its dimensions. Using census data and other housing surveys, Adams describes the recent history of housing in America; the nature of housing supply and demand; patterns of housing use; and selected housing policy questions. Adams supplements this national and regional analysis with a remarkable set of small-area analyses, revealing how neighborhood settings affect housing use and how market forces and other trends interact to shape a neighborhood. These analyses focus on a sample of over fifty urbanized areas, including the nation's three largest cities (New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago). Special two-color maps illustrate the dynamics of housing use in each of these communities. Clearly and insightfully, this volume paints a unique picture of the American "housing landscape," a landscape that reflects and regulates significant aspects of our national life. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series
Book Synopsis The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America by :
Download or read book The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
Book Synopsis The Remaking of an American by : Elizabeth L. Banks
Download or read book The Remaking of an American written by Elizabeth L. Banks and published by Garden City, Doubleday. This book was released on 1928 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The United States in a Chaotic World by :
Download or read book The United States in a Chaotic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America's Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Physicians and Surgeons of America by : Irving Allison Watson
Download or read book Physicians and Surgeons of America written by Irving Allison Watson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aviation written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Low-cost Cottage Construction in America by : Winthrop Abbott Hamlin
Download or read book Low-cost Cottage Construction in America written by Winthrop Abbott Hamlin and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The People's History of America by :
Download or read book The People's History of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early Man in South America by : Aleš Hrdlička
Download or read book Early Man in South America written by Aleš Hrdlička and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American and English Railroad Cases by : Lawrence Lewis
Download or read book The American and English Railroad Cases written by Lawrence Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Better Homes in American written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Missions written by Howard Benjamin Grose and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Insects by : Ross H. Arnett, Jr.
Download or read book American Insects written by Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-07-28 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a complete accounting of the insects of North America, this handbook is an up-dated edition of the first handbook ever compiled in the history of American entomology.By using American Insects, A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico, Second Edition, readers can quickly determine the taxonomic position of any species, genus, or
Book Synopsis The Iron Curtain by : Fraser J. Harbutt
Download or read book The Iron Curtain written by Fraser J. Harbutt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-10-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase "Iron Curtain." This speech, according to Fraser Harbutt, set forth the basic Western ideology of the coming East-West struggle. It was also a calculated move within, and a dramatic public definition of, the Truman administration's concurrent turn from accommodation to confrontation with the Soviet Union. It provoked a response from Stalin that goes far to explain the advent of the Cold War a few weeks later. This book is at once a fascinating biography of Winston Churchill as the leading protagonist of an Anglo-American political and military front against the Soviet Union and a penetrating re-examination of diplomatic relations between the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. in the postwar years. Pointing out the Americocentric bias in most histories of this period, Harbutt shows that the Europeans played a more significant part in precipitating the Cold War than most people realize. He stresses that the same pattern of events that earlier led America belatedly into two world wars, namely the initial separation and then the sudden coming together of the European and American political arenas, appeared here as well. From the combination of biographical and structural approaches, a new historical landscape emerges. The United States appears at times to be the rather passive object of competing Soviet and British maneuvers. The turning point came with the crisis of early 1946, which here receives its fullest analysis to date, when the Truman administration in a systematic but carefully veiled and still widely misunderstood reorientation of policy (in which Churchill figured prominently) led the Soviet Union into the political confrontation that brought on the Cold War.
