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100			_aReblando, Jason _919876
245			_aNew Deal utopias _cJason Reblando
260			_aHeidelberg : _bKehrer, _cc2017.
300			_a175 p. : _bill. ; _c29 cm.
520			_aNew Deal Utopias' explores three planned communities built by the US government during the Great Depression, collectively known as Greenbelt Towns. The photographs of the built environments and landscapes of Greenbelt, Maryland, Greenhills, Ohio, and Greendale, Wisconsin, evoke utopia both as an idea and place in the American mind. The towns were designed to be model cities to address the social and economic discrepancies brought on and accentuated by the Great Depression. In the 1930s, the program was critiqued as socialistic and communistic by conservative members of Congress, industrial and corporate leaders, and newspapers hostile to New Deal policies, yet they still managed to make an indelible impression on urbanist ideas in America. This book emphasizes that the Greenbelt towns are an overlooked, but crucial part of the American landscape, as we continue to grapple with the complex roles of housing, nature, and government in contemporary life.
650			_aUnited States. Resettlement Administration _xHistory _xPictorial works _919877
650			_aCity planning _vUnited States _xHistory _y20th century _zPictorial works _919878
650			_aNew Deal (1933-1939) _919879
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