Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America by Amy F. Ogata

Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America

Architecture, Landscape and American Culture

Amy F. Ogata

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The postwar American stereotypes of suburban sameness, traditional gender roles, and educational conservatism have masked an alternate self-image tailor-made for the Cold War. The creative child, an idealized future citizen, was the darling of bab...

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