Building the Dream
por The MIT Press
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Description
The evolution of housing in America.
This book is concerned essentially with the model of domestic environment in this country, as it has evolved from colonial architecture through current urban projects. Beginning with Puritan townscape, topics include urban row housing, Big House and slave quarters, factory housing, rural cottages, Victorian suburbs, urban tenements, apartment life, bungalows, company towns, planned residential communities, public housing for the poor, suburban sprawl.Gwendolyn Wright is an architectural historian.
This book is concerned essentially with the model of domestic environment in this country, as it has evolved from colonial architecture through current urban projects. Beginning with Puritan townscape, topics include urban row housing, Big House and slave quarters, factory housing, rural cottages, Victorian suburbs, urban tenements, apartment life, bungalows, company towns, planned residential communities, public housing for the poor, suburban sprawl.Gwendolyn Wright is an architectural historian.
PUBLISHER:
MIT Press
ISBN-10:
0262730642
ISBN-13:
9780262730648
BINDING:
Paperback / softback
BISAC:
ARCHITECTURE
PUBLICATION YEAR:
1983
NUMBER OF PAGES:
350
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
6.0600(W) x 9.0000(H) x 0.8600(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General/Adult
LANGUAGE:
English