America's Original GI Town: Park Forest, IllinoisJohns Hopkins University Press, 2000 - 236 páginas At the close of World War II, Americans became increasingly concerned about the problem of housing for returning veterans, relocated defense workers, and their families. Designs such as the garden city that dated from the turn of the twentieth century or earlier were prominent once again, as planners saw a renewed need for ready-made communities. One such community--among the first and, perhaps, most representative -- was Park Forest, Illinois, a privately built and publicly managed town twenty-six miles south of Chicago. 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. |
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Park Forest, Illinois Gregory C. Randall. APPENDIX A Elbert Peets's Correspondence with Walter Blucher In the late spring of 1950 a series of letters were exchanged between Elbert Peets , the planner of Park Forest , and Walter H ...
Park Forest, Illinois Gregory C. Randall. APPENDIX A Elbert Peets's Correspondence with Walter Blucher In the late spring of 1950 a series of letters were exchanged between Elbert Peets , the planner of Park Forest , and Walter H ...
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Park Forest, Illinois Gregory C. Randall. APPENDIX A Elbert Peets's Correspondence with Walter Blucher In the late spring of 1950 a series of letters were exchanged between Elbert Peets , the planner of Park Forest , and Walter H ...
Park Forest, Illinois Gregory C. Randall. APPENDIX A Elbert Peets's Correspondence with Walter Blucher In the late spring of 1950 a series of letters were exchanged between Elbert Peets , the planner of Park Forest , and Walter H ...
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... Elbert Peets , On the Art of Designing Cities : Selected Essays of Elbert Peets , ed . Paul D. Speiregen ( Cambridge : MIT Press , 1968 ) , 204 . Chapter Four : The Planning 1. Contract between Loebl and Schlossman and Elbert Peets ...
... Elbert Peets , On the Art of Designing Cities : Selected Essays of Elbert Peets , ed . Paul D. Speiregen ( Cambridge : MIT Press , 1968 ) , 204 . Chapter Four : The Planning 1. Contract between Loebl and Schlossman and Elbert Peets ...
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Preface | xiii |
Chapter One The Builders 1 | 16 |
Chapter Three Acquiring the Site and Other Players | 52 |
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