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Building New Communities: New Deal America and Fascist Italy

Door Diane Yvonne Ghirardo

Categorie
Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer
#399103-LA3
Titel
Building New Communities: New Deal America and Fascist Italy
Auteur
Ghirardo, Diane Yvonne
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Princeton University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1989
ISBN10
0691040672
ISBN13
9780691040677
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blue cloth, dust jacket, numerous illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting
We easily assume that the political systems of New Deal America and Fascist Italy were poles apart, but this fascinating exploration of the "new towns" of the 1930s argues persuasively to the contrary. Diane Ghirardo reveals that the planned communities of the New Deal, from Greenbelt towns to migrant worker camps, had close parallels in Italy and that new town policies in the United States and Italy were startlingly similar. In each country the central government tried to help solve massive unemployment problems in part by adopting essentially conservative designs to move impoverished citizens back to the land. The settlers were to flee the terrors of the Depression in an image borrowed from the past: the traditional nuclear family diligently at work on its own plot of ground, u... (Lees verder)ninvolved in strikes or demonstrations. Recognizing that architectural and planning history are inseparable from the study of politics and social movements, Ghirardo uses the new town ideal as a window to view American and Italian social and economic policies. As she examines specific towns and settlements in each country, she shows that they were meant to remove their inhabitants not only from the "wickedness" of the city but also from contagious notions about revolution and radical social change.
Pagina's
223
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 45,00

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