Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s

by Carolyn S. Loeb

Book Overview

Originally published in 2001. Suburban subdivisions of individual family homes are so familiar a part of the American landscape that it is hard to imagine a time when they were not common in the U. S. The shift to large-scale speculative subdivisions is usually attributed to the period after World War II. In Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s, Carolyn S. Loeb shows that the precedents for this change in single-family...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421433281
• ISBN13: 9781421433288
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"