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Hise, Greg G. "The Roots of the Postwar Urban Region: Mass-Housing and Community Planning in California, 1920 to 1950," Department of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles, December 1992. Advisor: Dell Upton (10, 8, Urban History)
This is a study of the community building process and urban expansion; specifically, the decisive mid-twentieth-century shift from a center-dominated industrial city to a decentralized urban region. The analysis of this transformation began with Los Angeles homebuilders and their spatial logic. This pointed to industry and led to the thesis, which is, that New Deal housing policy designed to extend home ownership to wage-earners intersected with the wartime deconcentration of industry and accelerated an emerging pattern of metropolitan development. “The Roots of the Postwar Urban Region” are uncovered through innovations in land development and financing, the standardization of community and house design, and the rationalization of building practice essential for mass-housing. In sum, these findings challenge the nature and timing of postwar “suburbanization.”
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