Hart / Rhodes / Morgan The Unknown World of the Mobile Home

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7583-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Creating the North American Landscape

In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and '50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable alternative to conventional site-built homes. Today one of every fourteen Americans lives in a mobile home.

In The Unknown World of the Mobile Home authors John Fraser Hart, Michelle J. Rhodes, and John T. Morgan illuminate the history and culture of these often misunderstood domiciles. They describe early mobile homes, which were trailers designed to be pulled behind automobiles and which were more often than not poorly constructed and unequal to the needs of those who used them. During the 1970s, however, Congress enacted federal standards for the quality and safety of mobile homes, which led to innovation in design and the production of much more attractive and durable models. These models now comply with local building codes and many are designed to look like conventional houses. As a result, one out every five new single-family housing units purchased in the United States is a mobile home, sited everywhere from the conventional trailer park to custom-designed "estates" aimed at young couples and retirees. Despite all these changes in manufacture and design, even the most immobile mobile homes are still sold, financed, regulated, and taxed as vehicles.

With a wealth of detail and illustrations, The Unknown World of the Mobile Home provides readers with an in-depth look into this variation on the American dream.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hart, John Fraser

Rhodes, Michelle J.

Morgan, John T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Part I: Background
Prologue
Chapter 1. Trailers
Chapter 2. Trailer Parks
Chapter 3. The War Years
Chapter 4. Mobile Homes
Chapter 5. The HUD Code
Chapter 6. New Models
Chapter 7. Sitting Mobile Homes
Part II: Single-Siteds
Chapter 8. Where Are They?
Chapter 9. The Lexington Hexagon
Chapter 10. Northern New Mexico
Chapter 11. Mercer County, North Dakota
Chapter 12. Upstate New York
Chapter 13. Adams County, Wisconsin
Chapter 14. Spersopolis
Chapter 15. The Coal Field
Part III: Side by Side
Chapter 16. The Mountain West
Chapter 17. Filling in the Flathead
Chapter 18. A Snapshot of Evergreen
Chapter 19. Boom and Bust in Western Montana
Chapter 20. The Changing "Small"-Town West
Part IV: Parks
Chapter 21. Mobile Home Parks, Utilitarian to Upscale
Chapter 22. The Twin Cities Metropolitan Area
Chapter 23. Southwestern Kansas
Chapter 24. Long Neck
Chapter 25. Florida
Chapter 26. Southern California
Part V: Conclusion & Epilogue
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hart, John Fraser
John Fraser Hart is professor of geography at the University of Minnesota. His previous books include The South, The Land That Feeds Us (recipient of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the American Association of Geographers), and, as editor, Our Changing Cities. The Rural Landscape is a thoroughly reworked successor to his earlier book, The Look of the Land, with only a few relict features.

John Fraser Hart is a professor of geography at the University of Minnesota. He is author and editor of ten books, most recently The Rural Landscape, also available from Johns Hopkins. Michelle J. Rhodes is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of geography at Simon Fraser University and an instructor of political science and geography at the University of Montana-Western. John T. Morgan is a professor of geography at Emory and Henry College.