The suburban culture of building and the reassuring revival of historicist architecture since 1970

Home Cultures

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-196

  Harris, Richard ^a   Nadine, Dostrovsky ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Architecture; Building; Canada; Consumption; Gentrif Gentrification; Housing; Ication; Modernism; New Urbanism; Postmodernism; Suburbs; Tradition; United States; Vernacular

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749122520     PISSN: 17406315     EISSN: 17517427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/174063108X333173     Document Type: Article

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