Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley - Couverture souple

Jakle, John A.; Bastian, Robert W.; Meyer, Douglas K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820310743 ISBN 13 : 9780820310749

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 1989

Synopsis

A geographical field guide to the American house. Based on an inventory of seventeen thousand homes in twenty sample cities from the Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley, this book explores how Americans housed themselves in the 1980s.

Features:Houses are divided into categories based on form, creating five broad families―one room deep, two rooms deep, irregularly massed, bungalow, and ranch.Photographs illustrate such diverse types as the hall and parlour cottage, salt box house, and raised ranch house, and such characteristics as height, roof form, and facade material.Charts and maps plot regional variations, revealing for example the prevalence of pre-World War I housing in the Middle West and of post-World War II ranches in the South.Glossary of structural forms gives more formal definition and description for the sixty-seven specific dwelling types analyzed.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

JOHN A. JAKLE is an emeritus professor of geography and landscape architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is coauthor, with Keith A. Sculle, of many books related to automobile culture in America, including Lots of Parking and Fast Food.

ROBERT W. BASTIAN is a professor of geography at Indiana State University.

DOUGLAS K. MEYER, a professor of geography at Eastern Illinois University, is the author of Pictorial Landscape History of Charleston, Illinois.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820310743
• ISBN 13: 9780820310749
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible