Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945-1965

The fascinating history of the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing

While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract houses of America's postwar suburbs represent the twentie...