The all-electric rancher displaced the energy-conserving solar house as the national housing dream

Evidence

Neither the solar house nor the all-electric home ever dominated the housing market in the years from 1945 to 1970, yet the fates of the two types of houses shed light on a profound turning point in American environmental history. For a few years, many people looked forward to the mass production of energy-conserving homes. By the 1960s, in contrast, the dream of millions of families was the allelectric rancher: With cheap energy and modern heating-and-cooling technology, the residents of every part of the country could imagine life in a home designed to suit the Mediterranean temperateness of California. The high-energy house had become common. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 285

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Reading the Landscape land-use thread and the polyad’s theme that standardization erases regional and climate adaptation.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source