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

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  • 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front
  • Written by author Andrew Michael Shanken
  • Published by University of Minnesota Press, February 2009
  • During the Second World War, American architecture was in a state of crisis. The rationing of building materials and restrictions on nonmilitary construction continued the privations that the profession had endured during the Great Depression. At the same
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Preface vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Planning the Postwar Architect 1

1 The Culture of Planning: The Rhetoric and Imagery of Home Front Anticipation 15

2 Old Cities, New Frontiers: Mature Economy Theory and the Language of Renewal 59

3 Advertising Nothing, Anticipating Nowhere: Architects and Consumer Culture 96

4 The End of Planning: The Buiiding Boom and the Invention of Normalcy 159

Afterword 196

Appendix: Wartime Advertising Campaigns 199

Notes 209

Bibliography 233

Index 245


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