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Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life
Dolores Hayden
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Description for Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life
Paperback. Winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Award for Excellence in Design Research, the Paul Davidoff Award for an Outstanding Book in Urban Planning, the Vesta Award for Feminist Scholarship in the Arts, and an ALA Notable Book Award: a provocative critique of how American housing patterns impact private and public life. Num Pages: 288 pages, 57 photographs, 21 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMK; JFSG; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Americans still build millions of dream houses in neighborhoods that sustain Victorian stereotypes of the home as 'woman's place' and the city as 'man's world.' Urban historian and architect Dolores Hayden tallies the personal and social costs of an American 'architecture of gender' for the two-earner family, the single-parent family, and single people. Many societies have struggled with the architectural and urban consequences of women's paid employment: Hayden traces three models of home in historical perspective—the haven strategy in the United States, the industrial strategy in the former USSR, and the neighborhood strategy in European social democracies—to document alternative ways ... Read more
Americans still build millions of dream houses in neighborhoods that sustain Victorian stereotypes of the home as 'woman's place' and the city as 'man's world.' Urban historian and architect Dolores Hayden tallies the personal and social costs of an American 'architecture of gender' for the two-earner family, the single-parent family, and single people. Many societies have struggled with the architectural and urban consequences of women's paid employment: Hayden traces three models of home in historical perspective—the haven strategy in the United States, the industrial strategy in the former USSR, and the neighborhood strategy in European social democracies—to document alternative ways ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393730944
SKU
V9780393730944
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About Dolores Hayden
Dolores Hayden, professor of architecture and American studies at Yale, writes about the politics of design.
Reviews for Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life
"Essential reading for architects, planners, and public officials...just as relevant today as it was nearly 20 years ago."
Ellen Louer - ArchNewsNow.com
Ellen Louer - ArchNewsNow.com