The Crack In The Picture Window
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The Crack In The Picture Window
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Author : John Keats
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2016-08-09
The Crack In The Picture Window written by John Keats and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-09 with History categories.
In this amusingly written yet serious report about housing developments, author John C. Keats discusses every aspect of life in a development. His account is supported by solid facts and figures and presented in personal terms to convey an existence that combines all of the worst aspects and none of the advantages of suburban living. “If you ever wondered what goes on under those regimented roofs, this book will tell you. And if you already know, it will make you want to get up and break something. Fortunately the book also tells you how to put the pieces back together.”
The Crack In The Picture Window
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Author : Don Kindler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
The Crack In The Picture Window written by Don Kindler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
Crack In The Picture Window
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Author : John Keats
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09
Crack In The Picture Window written by John Keats and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
Consumption Disciplinary Approaches To Consumption
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Author : Daniel Miller
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2001
Consumption Disciplinary Approaches To Consumption written by Daniel Miller and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Business & Economics categories.
Make Room For Tv
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Author : Lynn Spigel
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1992-06
Make Room For Tv written by Lynn Spigel and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-06 with Family & Relationships categories.
Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set—and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched. In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years of the new medium: how, over the course of a single decade, television became an intimate part of everyday life. What did Americans expect from it? What effects did the new daily ritual of watching television have on children? Was television welcomed as an unprecedented "window on the world," or as a "one-eyed monster" that would disrupt households and corrupt children? Drawing on an ambitious array of unconventional sources, from sitcom scripts to articles and advertisements in women's magazines, Spigel offers the fullest available account of the popular response to television in the postwar years. She chronicles the role of television as a focus for evolving debates on issues ranging from the ideal of the perfect family and changes in women's role within the household to new uses of domestic space. The arrival of television did more than turn the living room into a private theater: it offered a national stage on which to play out and resolve conflicts about the way Americans should live. Spigel chronicles this lively and contentious debate as it took place in the popular media. Of particular interest is her treatment of the way in which the phenomenon of television itself was constantly deliberated—from how programs should be watched to where the set was placed to whether Mom, Dad, or kids should control the dial. Make Room for TV combines a powerful analysis of the growth of electronic culture with a nuanced social history of family life in postwar America, offering a provocative glimpse of the way television became the mirror of so many of America's hopes and fears and dreams.
Between Dream Houses And God S Own Junkyard Architecture And The Built Environment In American Suburban Fiction
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Author : Stefanie Strebel
language : en
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date : 2021-06-28
Between Dream Houses And God S Own Junkyard Architecture And The Built Environment In American Suburban Fiction written by Stefanie Strebel and has been published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
The American suburb is a space dominated by architectural mass production, sprawl, as well as a monotonous aesthetic eclecticism, and many critics argue that it has developed from a postwar utopia into a disorienting environment with which it is difficult to identify. The typical suburb has come to display characteristics of an atopia, that is, a space without borders or even a non-place, a generic space of transience. Dealing with the representation of architecture and the built environment in suburban literature and film from the 1920s until present, this study demonstrates that in its fictional representations, too, suburbia has largely turned into a place of non-architecture. A lack of architectural ethos and an abundance of "Junkspace" define suburban narratives, causing an increasing sense of disorientation and entropy in fictional characters.
Acoustical And Thermal Performance Of Exterior Residential Walls Doors And Windows
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Author : Hale J. Sabine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Acoustical And Thermal Performance Of Exterior Residential Walls Doors And Windows written by Hale J. Sabine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Doors categories.
Houses For A New World
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Author : Barbara Miller Lane
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-12
Houses For A New World written by Barbara Miller Lane and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with Architecture categories.
The fascinating history of the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract houses of America's postwar suburbs represent the twentieth century’s most successful experiment in mass housing. Houses for a New World is the first comprehensive history of this uniquely American form of domestic architecture and urbanism. Between 1945 and 1965, more than thirteen million houses—most of them in new ranch and split-level styles—were constructed on large expanses of land outside city centers, providing homes for the country’s rapidly expanding population. Focusing on twelve developments in the suburbs of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Barbara Miller Lane tells the story of the collaborations between builders and buyers, showing how both wanted houses and communities that espoused a modern way of life—informal, democratic, multiethnic, and devoted to improving the lives of their children. The resulting houses differed dramatically from both the European International Style and older forms of American domestic architecture. Based on a decade of original research, and accompanied by hundreds of historical images, plans, and maps, this book presents an entirely new interpretation of the American suburb. The result is a fascinating history of houses and developments that continue to shape how tens of millions of Americans live. Featured housing developments in Houses for a New World: Boston area: Governor Francis Farms (Warwick, RI) Wethersfield (Natick, MA) Brookfield (Brockton, MA) Chicago area: Greenview Estates (Arlington Heights, IL) Elk Grove Village Rolling Meadows Weathersfield at Schaumburg Los Angeles and Orange County area: Cinderella Homes (Anaheim, CA) Panorama City (Los Angeles) Rossmoor (Los Alamitos, CA) Philadelphia area: Lawrence Park (Broomall, PA) Rose Tree Woods (Broomall, PA)
Expanding The American Dream
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Author : Barbara M. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Expanding The American Dream written by Barbara M. Kelly and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Much has been written about the housing policies of the Depression and the Postwar period. Much less has been written of the houses built as a result of these policies, or the lives of the families who lived in them. Using the houses of Levittown, Long Island, as cultural artifacts, this book examines the relationship between the government-sponsored, mass-produced housing built after World War II, the families who lived in it, and the society that fostered it. Beginning with the basic four-room, slab-based Cape Cods and Ranches, Levittown homeowners invested time and effort, barter and money in the expansion and redesign of their houses. The author shows how this gradual process has altered the socioeconomic nature of the community as well, bringing Levittown fully into the mainstream of middle-class America. This book works on several levels. For planners, it offers a reassessment of the housing policies of the 1940s and '50s, suggesting that important lessons remain to be learned from the Levittown experience. For historians, it offers new insights into the nature of the suburbanization process that followed World War II. And for those who wish to understand the subtle workings of their own domestic space within their lives, it offers food for speculation.
Paint By Number
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Author : William L. Bird
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 2001-03
Paint By Number written by William L. Bird and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03 with Art categories.
"The how-to craze that swept the nation."--Cover subtitle.