Unknown World of the Mobile Home

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

AvJohn Fraser Hart,Michelle J. Rhodes,John T. Morgan,University of Minnesota) Hart, John Fraser (Professor of Geography,Michelle J. (University of the Fraser Valley) Rhodes,John T. (Emory & Henry College) Morgan,Michelle J Rhodes,John T Morgan

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-10-15
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCreating the North American Landscape
Antal sidor160
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801868993

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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.

AcknowledgmentsPart I: BackgroundPrologueChapter 1. Trailers Chapter 2. Trailer ParksChapter 3. The War YearsChapter 4. Mobile HomesChapter 5. The HUD CodeChapter 6. New ModelsChapter 7. Sitting Mobile HomesPart II: Single-SitedsChapter 8. Where Are They?Chapter 9. The Lexington Hexagon Chapter 10. Northern New MexicoChapter 11. Mercer County, North DakotaChapter 12. Upstate New YorkChapter 13. Adams County, WisconsinChapter 14. SpersopolisChapter 15. The Coal FieldPart III: Side by SideChapter 16. The Mountain West Chapter 17. Filling in the FlatheadChapter 18. A Snapshot of EvergreenChapter 19. Boom and Bust in Western MontanaChapter 20. The Changing "Small"-Town WestPart IV: ParksChapter 21. Mobile Home Parks, Utilitarian to UpscaleChapter 22. The Twin Cities Metropolitan AreaChapter 23. Southwestern KansasChapter 24. Long NeckChapter 25. FloridaChapter 26. Southern CaliforniaPart V: Conclusion & EpilogueConclusion EpilogueBibliographyIndex

An insightful meditation on American notions of mobility and class. Doubletake This clear, to-the-point study directs attention to the proliferation of this type of housing and the social stigma attached to it and its occupants... This is a thought-provoking, readable examination of modern US life, far broader in scope than one might first imagine. Choice 2003 Provides the reader with a complex, nuanced, and sympathetic look at the world of the mobile home dweller. There are no trailer trash in this book, just decent, hard-working middle- and working-class men and women looking for affordable housing options. -- Jan Davidson Enterprise and Society

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