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Houses for a new world : builders and buyers in American suburbs, 1945-1965 / Barbara Miller Lane.
- Title
- Houses for a new world : builders and buyers in American suburbs, 1945-1965 / Barbara Miller Lane.
- Author
- Lane, Barbara Miller
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 305 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
- Subjects
- Architecture and society
- Housing development > Social aspects
- Suburban homes
- History
- 1900 - 1999
- United States
- Architecture and society > United States > History > 20th century
- Housing development > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century
- Suburban homes > United States > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Paraphrases of original buyers' recollections -- New houses and new communities -- West Coast builders: Los Angeles and Orange County -- East Coast builders: Philadelphia and Boston -- The builders of Chicago's Golden Corridor: Midwestern ranches and splits -- The buyers, their backgrounds, and their preferences -- Houses and suburbs transformed -- Appendix 1. Chronological list of Campanelli developments, Massachusetts and Rhode Island -- Appendix 2. Stoltzner business history -- Appendix 3. Interviews with original buyers or their children.
- ISBN
- 9780691167619
- 0691167613
- LCCN
- ^^2015004110
- OCLC
- 905089251
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library