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)
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