America's original GI town
Park Forest, Illinois
by Gregory C. Randall
"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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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
0801877520 9780801877520
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America's original GI town: Park Forest, Illinois
2000, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
0801862078 9780801862076
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-227) and index.
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"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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