Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work

Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life

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.
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 perspectiveâ€•the haven strategy in the United States, the industrial strategy in the former USSR, and the neighborhood strategy in European social democraciesâ€•to document alternative ways to reconstruct neighborhoods.

Updated and still utterly relevant today as the New Urbanist architects have taken up Hayden's critique of suburban space, this award-winning book is essential reading for architects, planners, public officials, and activists interested in women's social and economic equality.
57 photographs, 21 line drawings
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780393730944
ReleaseDate 2002-08-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393730944

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780393730944
ReleaseDate	2002-08-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393730944

Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life

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