Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley. 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 prevale

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

Edité par The university of Georgia Press., 1989

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238 pages. Hardcover. Library copy from Prairie View university Texas. Usual stamps, but does not appear to have been used. Good condition. Grey cloth. No dust jacket.

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• Titre: Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley. 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. ...
• Éditeur: The university of Georgia Press.
• Date de parution: 1989