Ranches Rowhouses And Railroad Flats

Author : Christine M. Hunter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730258
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ranches, Rowhouses, and Railroad Flats written by Christine M. Hunter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Ranches, Rowhouses, and Railroad Flats is a delightfully illustrated and readable introduction to the evolution of America's housing forms and the ways that they shape - and limit - the neighborhoods around them.

Author : Christine M. Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ranches, Rowhouses & Railroad Flats written by Christine M. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine Hunter
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393731863
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ranches Rowhouses and Railroad Flats written by Christine Hunter and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to housing in the United States: its characteristic forms and its environmental implications. What are the basic requirements for a home? Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family home, in three possible forms: freestanding house, attached house, and apartment. She discusses interior spaces, connections to the immediate outdoors, mechanical and plumbing connections, and connections to society. She emphasizes the varied and often conflicting environmental concerns, and examines how homes are grouped and combined with other building types and open spaces into neighborhoods.

Author : Barbara Miller Lane
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691246424
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Houses for a New World written by Barbara Miller Lane and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old-House Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.

Author : Kingston Wm Heath
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572331389
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patina of Place written by Kingston Wm Heath and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the booming textile industry turned many New England towns and villages into industrialized urban centers. This rapid urbanization transformed not only the economic base but the regional identity of communities such as New Bedford as new housing forms emerged to accommodate the largely immigrant workforce of the mills.

Author : S. David Wilson
Publisher : S. David Wilson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Celestial Railroad: A Steam Age Saga of Artisanship and Aspiration written by S. David Wilson and published by S. David Wilson. This book was released on 2024-02-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised annotated work explores the rise and fall of the steam age as it shaped the life of an archetypal industrial family. Particular emphasis is placed on the railroad and shipbuilding industries in Britain and the United States.

Author : Virginia Savage McAlester
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385353871
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to American Houses written by Virginia Savage McAlester and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.

Author : Avi Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136638431
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Town and Terraced Housing written by Avi Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic approach is used to cover the many facets of terraced and townhouses – a style of building which has been in use since the Roman era and is still useful today. The whole range of this style of housing is covered from interior design and construction methods, to more social factors like the issues of parking and street configurations. Alongside over 150 diagrams and eighty photos, Avi Friedman creates a book which will be a valuable resource for all those involved in the planning, design and creation of terraced and town houses.

Author : Herbert Gottfried
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393732627
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Vernacular Architecture 1870 To 1960 written by Herbert Gottfried and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive examination of American vernacular buildings.