Series Editors:
Katherine Solomonson and Abigail A. Van Slyck
Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture
This series promotes historical scholarship that addresses the complex interplay among architecture, landscape, and American culture. By examining the social, political, economic, and cultural processes involved in the creation of buildings and environments, these books apply innovative methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to inform the conception, production, and reception of American cultural landscapes.
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Books in this Series
How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940
The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes
Building Zion
What the built environment shows us about the complex and evolving nature of nineteenth-century Mormon social and religious life
Designing the Creative Child
The construction of the “creative child” as Cold War America’s best hope for the future
Little White Houses
How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era
Fallout Shelter
Tracing the partnership between architects and American civil defense officials during the Cold War
194X
Rediscovering the visionary designs and idealistic rhetoric of American architecture during World War II
The Architecture of Madness
From Kirkbride buildings to cottages, a fascinating tour through America’s nineteenth-century mental hospitals
A Manufactured Wilderness
An engrossing look at American summer camps—from mess halls to tents to fire circles
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