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America’s Original GI Town: Park Forest, Illinois (Creating the North American Landscape)

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At the close of World War II, Americans became an increasing number of concerned about the problem of housing for returning veterans, relocated defense workers, and their families. Designs such as the garden city that dated from the turn of the twentieth century or earlier were prominent once again, as planners saw a renewed need for able-made communities. One such community–a number of the first and, in all probability, most representative — used to be Park Forest, Illinois, a privately built and publicly managed town twenty-six miles south of Chicago.

In this book, Gregory Randall presents the history of the planning, design, construction, and growth of Park Forest. He shows how planners — who dubbed the new community a “GI town” — drew on lessons learned from English garden cities and New Deal greenbelt towns to deal with The united states’s emerging peacetime housing crisis. He also shows how this new town changed community planning all through the USA, including its effects on community development as much as the present.


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