Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s
Hardback
Publication Date: 07/09/2001
Suburban subdivisions of individual family homes are so familiar a part of the American landscape that it is hard to imagine a time when they were not common in the US. The shift to large-scale speculative subdivisions is usually attributed to the period after World War II. In this book, Carolyn S. Loeb shows that the precedents for this change in single-family home design were the result of concerted efforts by entrepreneurial realtors and other housing professionals during the 1920s. In her discussion of the historical and structural forces that propelled this change, Loeb focuses on three typical speculative subdivisions of the 1920s and on the realtors, architects, and building-craftsmen who designed and constructed them. These examples highlight the "shared set of planning and design concerns" that animated realtors (whom Loeb sees as having played the "key role" in this process) and the network of housing experts with whom they associated. Decentralized and loosely co-ordinated, this network promoted home ownership through flexible strategies of design, planning, financing, and construction which the author describes as a new and "entrepreneurial" vernacular.
- ISBN:
- 9780801866180
- 9780801866180
- Category:
- Residential buildings
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 07-09-2001
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 296
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x23mm
- Weight:
- 0.59kg
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