America's original GI town
Park Forest, Illinois
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Author
Publication
2000 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md, Maryland
Language
English
Word Count
59,000 words, Guess
Page Count
236 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL38506M
- ISBN-100801862078
- OCLC Control Number41086760
- OCLC Control Numberamericasoriginal0000rand
- Library of Congress Control Number99026762
and 2 more
- LibraryThing3544140
- Goodreads4733654
Classifications
- DDC977.3/1
- LCCF549.P23 R36 2000
Description
"In this book, Gregory Randall presents the history of the planning, design, construction, and growth of Park Forest. He shows how planners - who dubbed the new community a "GI town" - drew on lessons learned from English garden cities and New Deal greenbelt towns to cope with America's emerging peacetime housing crisis. He also shows how this new town changed community planning throughout the United States, including its effects on community development up to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
THE unquenchable optimism of Americans for their future, after World War II, was the result of years of economic and social trials that would have torn other countries apart.
Subjects
Topics
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Genres
- Case studies.
Series Statement
- Creating the North American landscape
Other Editions
- America's original GI town: Park Forest, Illinois
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