| Series |
Midcentury: architecture, landscape, urbanism, and design
Midcentury (Charlottesville, Va.) ^A1373083
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| Contents |
Together and apart : encapsulation and the automobile -- The house of anxiety : introversion in domestic design -- The lump in the garden : the fallout shelter and the inhumation of everyday life -- It's cool inside : advertising the social thermodynamics of air-conditioning -- A vista of one's own : glass walls, picture windows, and the interiorization of the outdoors -- From Southdale to the Axiom : design for a better outdoors inside the mall -- Domocracy : the life and death of great indoor cities. |
| Abstract |
"Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls-- These are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia. Indoor America explores the history of suburbanization through the emergence of such spaces in the postwar years, ezamining their design, use, and representation. ... " -- Publisher's announcement. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2018024539 |
| ISBN | 9780813941585 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 081394158X hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |
