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Indoor America : the interior landscape of postwar suburbia / Andrea Vesentini.

By: Vesentini, Andrea, 1985- [author.].
Series: Midcentury : architecture, landscape, urbanism, and design.Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, ©2018Description: xviii, 321 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780813941585 (cloth : acidfree paper).Subject(s): Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Suburban life -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Suburbs -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Print books.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-297) and index.

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.

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