How The New Deal Changed American Architecture

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 24, 2017

The New Deal was created to pull America out of the depths of the Great Depression. As it unfolded during the 1930s, one federal agency - the Works Progress Administration - funded the construction of government buildings throughout American cities. In his book WPA Buildings: Architecture and Art of the New Deal, Joseph Maresca highlights how these buildings and their Art Deco design signaled to the rest of the country that a new era was underway. 

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