Detached America: Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia

by James A. Jacobs

During the quarter century between 1945 and 1970, Americans crafted a new manner of living that shaped and reshaped how residential builders designed and marketed millions of detached single-family suburban houses. The modest two- and three-bedroom houses built immediately following the war gave way to larger and more sophisticated houses shaped by casual living, which stressed a family's easy sociability and material comfort and were a major element...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813937612
• ISBN13: 9780813937618
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"