Sarah Jo Peterson. Planning the Home Front: Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run.
Level 5 - mechanism / opinion, no new human data
Book review and historical commentary (graded by design analogy, not clinical CEBM)
OpenAlex W2317725345 · doi:10.1093/ahr/119.4.1295
What was done
This publication is a book review of Sarah Jo Peterson's historical monograph, Planning the Home Front: Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run. The review outlines Peterson's examination of industrial mobilization and urban planning around the Ford Willow Run bomber plant near Ypsilanti, Michigan, during World War II.
What was found
The abstract provides no numerical data or empirical results. It reports qualitatively that Peterson's book documents the inability of American business and community leaders to plan adequately for rapid industrial expansion, leading to disruptive and wasteful local conditions alongside wartime manufacturing achievements.
Why it matters
The work underscores the friction between national emergency industrial mobilization and municipal infrastructure planning, documenting how rapid defense expansion placed severe burdens on local host communities.
Limits
This record is a non-empirical book review rather than a primary study. The abstract contains no quantitative metrics, data collection methodology, or systematic evaluation criteria.
Cited by
- supports During World War II, the Ford manufacturing plant in Detroit produced B-24 Liberator bombers at a rate of one per hour.