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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11374178.
- catalog coverage "Park Forest (Ill.) History 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Park Forest (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-227) and index.".
- catalog description "The Builders -- The Beginning -- Acquiring the Site and Other Players -- The Planning -- The Construction -- The First Residents -- America Reborn -- The Shopping Center -- The Single-Family Homes -- The Legacy -- Elbert Peets's Correspondence with Walter Blucher -- Preliminary Prospectus for the Community, July 25, 1946.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 236 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "America's original GI town.".
- catalog identifier "0801862078 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "America's original GI town.".
- catalog isPartOf "Creating the North American landscape".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "America's original GI town.".
- catalog spatial "Park Forest (Ill.) History 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Park Forest (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "977.3/1 21".
- catalog subject "F549.P23 R36 2000".
- catalog subject "New towns United States Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Builders -- The Beginning -- Acquiring the Site and Other Players -- The Planning -- The Construction -- The First Residents -- America Reborn -- The Shopping Center -- The Single-Family Homes -- The Legacy -- Elbert Peets's Correspondence with Walter Blucher -- Preliminary Prospectus for the Community, July 25, 1946.".
- catalog title "America's original GI town : Park Forest, Illinois / Gregory C. Randall.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".