03091nam 2200661Ia 450 991082138950332120200520144314.00-8166-7064-1(CKB)2670000000037245(EBL)557536(OCoLC)664232513(SSID)ssj0000422644(PQKBManifestationID)11289431(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422644(PQKBWorkID)10417935(PQKB)10311208(MiAaPQ)EBC557536(OCoLC)648757472(MdBmJHUP)muse39443(Au-PeEL)EBL557536(CaPaEBR)ebr10404177(CaONFJC)MIL525857(EXLCZ)99267000000003724520090303d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrManhood factories YMCA architecture and the making of modern urban culture /Paula Lupkin1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press20101 online resource (289 p.)Architecture, landscape, and American culture seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8166-4835-2 0-8166-4834-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: the YMCA and the cultural landscape of modernity -- Reconciling morality and mammon: a Christian club for clerks -- Inventing the YMCA building -- Accepting the call to build: architectural evangelism on Main Street -- Bedrooms, billiards, and basketball: retooling the YMCA -- From Greensboro to China: YMCA architecture as international business -- Influences radiate.Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, the Young Men's Christian Association built more than a thousand community centers across the United States and in major cities around the world. Dubbed "manhood factories" by Teddy Roosevelt, these iconic buildings served as athletic centers and residential facilities for a rapidly growing urban male population. In Manhood Factories, Paula Lupkin goes behind the reserved Beaux-Arts facades of typical YMCA buildings constructed in this period to understand the urban anxieties, moral agendas, and conceptions of masculinity that guided their designArchitecture, landscape, and American culture series.Young Men's Christian associationsBuildingsArchitectureMoral and ethical aspectsUnited StatesArchitecture and societyUnited StatesSpace (Architecture)United StatesYoung Men's Christian associationsBuildings.ArchitectureMoral and ethical aspectsArchitecture and societySpace (Architecture)726/.9Lupkin Paula1669540MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821389503321Manhood factories4030767UNINA