Indoor America : the interior landscape of postwar suburbia /
Andrea Vesentini.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
- Midcentury : architecture, landscape, urbanism, and design .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Together and apart : encapsulation and the automobile -- The house of anxiety : introversion in domestic design -- The lump in the garden : the fallout shelter and the inhumation of everyday life -- It's cool inside : advertising the social thermodynamics of air-conditioning -- A vista of one's own : glass walls, picture windows, and the interiorization of the outdoors -- From Southdale to the Axiom : design for a better outdoors inside the mall -- Domocracy : the life and death of great indoor cities.
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Architecture and society--History--United States--20th century. Space (Architecture)--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century. Suburban life--History--United States--20th century. Suburbs--History--United States--20th century.