Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Culture

摘要

This very interesting book shows how YMCA buildings played a prominent role in the development of small and large cities across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But more, it is a book about how the YMCA both fitted into and helped to create the culture of modern urban life. In five chapters and an epilogue, Lupkin takes an American studies approach that looks to architectural history but goes well beyond its traditional limits.