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• Title:Indoor America : the interior landscape of postwar suburbia / Andrea Vesentini.
  
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• Author/Creator:Vesentini, Andrea, 1985- author.
  
• Published/Created:Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2018].
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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA2543.S6 V52 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture and society--United States--History--20th century.
  Space (Architecture)--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
  Suburban life--United States--History--20th century.
  Suburbs--United States--History--20th century.
  
• Description:xviii, 321 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
  
• Series:Midcentury (Charlottesville, Va.)
  
• Summary:"Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls-- These are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia. Indoor America explores the history of suburbanization through the emergence of such spaces in the postwar years, ezamining their design, use, and representation. ... " -- Publisher's announcement.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780813941585 hardcover alkaline paper
  081394158X hardcover alkaline paper
  9780813941806 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Together and Apart: Encapsulation and the Automobile
  2. House of Anxiety: Introversion in Domestic Design
  3. Lump in the Garden: The Fallout Shelter and the Inhumation of Everyday Life
  4. It's Cool Inside: Advertising the Social Thermodynamics of Air-Conditioning
  5. Vista of One's Own: Glass Walls, Picture Windows, and the Interiorization of the Outdoors
  6. From Southdale to the Axiom: Design for a Better Outdoors inside the Mall
  7. Domocracy: The Life and Death of Great Indoor Cities.