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Archer, John.  Architecture and Suburbia:  From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000. Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

 

Bergdoll, Barry and Peter Christensen.  Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.  New York, NY:  The Museum of Modern Art, 2008.

 

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Cuff, Dana.   The Provisional City:  Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism.   Cambridge, Mass.,: MIT Press, 2000.

 

Decker, Julie and Chris Chiei.  Quonset hut:  metal living for a modern age.  Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage Museum Association, Alaska Design

 

Fetters, Thomas T.  The Lustron Home: the history of a postwar prefabricated housing experiment.  Jefferson, N.C.:  McFarland, 2002.

 

Godwin, Sara.  “Clean and easy living…the Lustron still offers it,” Macomb Eagle, 15 Nov. 2001.

 

Herbert, Gilbert.  The Dream of the Factory-Made House: Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann.  Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1984.

 

Howe, Hartley E. “Stop Gap Housing  - Millions of Families Can’t wait for permanent homes,” Popular Science, March 1946 pp-66-71.

 

Jandl, H.Ward.  Yesterday’s Houses of Tomorrow:  innovative American homes, 1850-to 1950.  Washington, DC:  Preservation Press, 1991.  

 

Johnson, Cynthia E. House in a Box:  Prefabricated Housing in the Jackson Purchases Cultural Landscape Region, 1900-1960. Kentucky Heritage Council: 2006.

 

Knerr, Douglas.  Suburban Steel:  The Magnificent failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945-1951.  Columbus:  Ohio State University Press, 2004.

 

Lasch, Robert.  Breaking the Building Blockade.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1946.

 

Leavitt, R. Scott.  “Harvardevens, Livable but Expensive, Shapes Up as Real Community,” The Harvard Crimson, 18 Oct. 1946.

 

Liccese-Torres, Cynthia and Kim A. O’Connell.  “The Illustrious Lustron:  A Guide for the Disassembly and Preservation of America’s Modern Metal Marvel,” Arlington, VA, 2007.

 

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Mitchell, Robert A.  “What Ever Happened to Lustron Homes?” APT Bulletin, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 44-53.

 

Munro, Heather.  “Living in a Lustron,” McDonough County This Week 1 Dec. 2008.

 

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