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Book Review| September 01 2010 Review: 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Homefront, by Andrew M. Shanken Andrew M. Shanken; 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Homefront; Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 254 pp., 13 color and 96 b/w illus. $24.95, ISBN 9780816653669 Gabrielle Esperdy Gabrielle Esperdy New Jersey Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2010) 69 (3): 455–456. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2010.69.3.455 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Gabrielle Esperdy; Review: 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Homefront, by Andrew M. Shanken. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2010; 69 (3): 455–456. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2010.69.3.455 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search The "X" in the title of Andrew Shanken's book refers to the unknown year that would mark the end of the Second World War. The stateside creators of what Shanken describes as "a kind of V-day for the built environment" (1) were convinced that the war would be over before the 1940s were through. This optimism, which suffused the home front in this period, is a keynote of Shanken's book. Reeling from the economic austerities of the Depression and the material restrictions of the war, architecture survived this professional double whammy by, in essence, ignoring it. Rather than dwelling on the lack of opportunities for building in the present, the profession looked toward the future, imagining a time when they might start to build again. Planning for this specific postwar moment, along with the rhetoric and discourse that surrounded it and the culture that produced it, is the subject of... You do not currently have access to this content.
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