An edition of America's original GI town (2000)

America's original GI town

Park Forest, Illinois

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An edition of America's original GI town (2000)

America's original GI town

Park Forest, Illinois

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"In this book, Gregory Randall presents the history of the planning, design, construction, and growth of Park Forest. He shows how planners - who dubbed the new community a "GI town" - drew on lessons learned from English garden cities and New Deal greenbelt towns to cope with America's emerging peacetime housing crisis. He also shows how this new town changed community planning throughout the United States, including its effects on community development up to the present."--BOOK JACKET.

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Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
English
Pages
236

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Subjects

Social conditions, New towns, Case studies, History, Illinois, history, Illinois, social conditions

Places

Park Forest (Ill.), United States

Times

20th century
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Cover of: America's Original GI Town
America's Original GI Town: Park Forest, Illinois (Creating the North American Landscape)
October 3, 2003, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: America's original GI town
America's original GI town: Park Forest, Illinois
2000, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Details

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-227) and index.

Published in
Baltimore, Md
Series
Creating the North American landscape
Genre
Case studies.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
977.3/1
Library of Congress
F549.P23 R36 2000, F549.P23R36 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 236 p. :
Number of pages
236

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Open Library
OL38506M
Internet Archive
americasoriginal0000rand
ISBN 10
0801862078
LCCN
99026762
OCLC/WorldCat
41086760
Library Thing
3544140
Goodreads
4733654

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First Sentence

"THE unquenchable optimism of Americans for their future, after World War II, was the result of years of economic and social trials that would have torn other countries apart."

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