{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "I did my American Studies senior thesis in college on split-level houses, I found they were product of\nThe WWII training of a...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/688362469392007168/", "html": "<p>I did my American Studies senior thesis in college on split-level houses, I found they were product of</p><ul><li>The WWII training of a civil engineer cohort used to gas-powered construction machinery and retaining walls*, that could make use of</li><li>Previously marginal hillside lots in the postwar housing crisis,</li><li>Improved furnaces that didn&rsquo;t dirty the whole basement, and</li><li>Boomers&rsquo; parents&rsquo; desire for a lifestyle untainted by their children</li></ul><p>* my maternal grandfather was a WWII-vet SeaBee Lt. Commander (he built golf courses in Hawaii to accommodate all the new officers) who went into home construction </p>"}