Description
Book SynopsisWith 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.
Trade ReviewAn 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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Part I: Background
Prologue
Chapter 1. Trailers
Chapter 2. Trailer Parks
Chapter 3. The War Years
Chapter 4. Mobile Homes
Chapter 5. The HUD Code
Chapter 6. New Models
Chapter 7. Sitting Mobile Homes
Part II: Single-Siteds
Chapter 8. Where Are They?
Chapter 9. The Lexington Hexagon
Chapter 10. Northern New Mexico
Chapter 11. Mercer County, North Dakota
Chapter 12. Upstate New York
Chapter 13. Adams County, Wisconsin
Chapter 14. Spersopolis
Chapter 15. The Coal Field
Part III: Side by Side
Chapter 16. The Mountain West
Chapter 17. Filling in the Flathead
Chapter 18. A Snapshot of Evergreen
Chapter 19. Boom and Bust in Western Montana
Chapter 20. The Changing "Small"-Town West
Part IV: Parks
Chapter 21. Mobile Home Parks, Utilitarian to Upscale
Chapter 22. The Twin Cities Metropolitan Area
Chapter 23. Southwestern Kansas
Chapter 24. Long Neck
Chapter 25. Florida
Chapter 26. Southern California
Part V: Conclusion & Epilogue
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
