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

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

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

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Shanken, Andrew M. Pap. Minneapolis, 2009 A major study of American architecture during World War II focusing on the culture of anticipation that arose in this period, as out-of-work architects turned their energies from the built to the unbuilt, redefining themselves as planners and creating original designs to excite the public about postwar architecture. 254 pp. 80916