Construction and Building Materials
Title | Construction and Building Materials PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | Building materials industry |
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Construction Review
Title | Construction Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | Construction industry |
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Issues for 1955 accompanied by supplement: Construction volume and costs, 1915-1954.
Report
Title | Report PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2226 |
Release | |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Building a Market
Title | Building a Market PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Harris |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 2012-08-27 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0226317668 |
Each year, North Americans spend as much money fixing up their homes as they do buying new ones. This obsession with improving our dwellings has given rise to a multibillion-dollar industry that includes countless books, consumer magazines, a cable television network, and thousands of home improvement stores. Building a Market charts the rise of the home improvement industry in the United States and Canada from the end of World War I into the late 1950s. Drawing on the insights of business, social, and urban historians, and making use of a wide range of documentary sources, Richard Harris shows how the middle-class preference for home ownership first emerged in the 1920s—and how manufacturers, retailers, and the federal government combined to establish the massive home improvement market and a pervasive culture of Do-It-Yourself. Deeply insightful, Building a Market is the carefully crafted history of the emergence and evolution of a home improvement revolution that changed not just American culture but the American landscape as well.
Applied Mechanics Reviews
Title | Applied Mechanics Reviews PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 608 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | Mechanics, Applied |
ISBN |
National Housing Act as Amended and Provisions of Other Laws Pertaining to the Federal Housing Administration
Title | National Housing Act as Amended and Provisions of Other Laws Pertaining to the Federal Housing Administration PDF eBook |
Author | United States |
Publisher | |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Housing |
ISBN |
Railway Age
Title | Railway Age PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 740 |
Release | 1953-11 |
Genre | Locomotives |
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