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New Deal utopias

Title

New Deal utopias / Jason Reblando ; texts: Natasha Egan, Robert Leighninger, Jr.

Author

Reblando, Jason

Publication

Heidelberg : Kehrer Heidelberg, [2017]
©2017

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Description

175 pages : color illustrations; 24 x 29 cm

Summary

New Deal Utopias' explores three planned communities built by the US government during the Great Depression, collectively known as Greenbelt Towns. The photographs of the built environments and landscapes of Greenbelt, Maryland, Greenhills, Ohio, and Greendale, Wisconsin, evoke utopia both as an idea and place in the American mind. The towns were designed to be model cities to address the social and economic discrepancies brought on and accentuated by the Great Depression. In the 1930s, the program was critiqued as socialistic and communistic by conservative members of Congress, industrial and corporate leaders, and newspapers hostile to New Deal policies, yet they still managed to make an indelible impression on urbanist ideas in America. This book emphasizes that the Greenbelt towns are an overlooked, but crucial part of the American landscape, as we continue to grapple with the complex roles of housing, nature, and government in contemporary life.

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Genre/Form

History.
Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

9783868287905
3868287906

OCLC

on1004734006
SCSB-8878927

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library