Designing the creative child : playthings and places in midcentury America

Designing the creative child : playthings and places in midcentury America / Amy F. Ogata.

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 baby boom parents, psychologists, marketers, and designe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ogata, Amy Fumiko, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Series:Architecture, landscape, and American culture series.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Children > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Creative ability in children > United States.
Play environments > United States.
Design > Human factors > United States.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Contemporary (1945- )
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Child Development.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Child.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychotherapy > Child & Adolescent.
Children > Social conditions
Creative ability in children
Design > Human factors
Play environments
United States
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