Main entry:

Hayden, Dolores.

Title & Author:

Redesigning the American dream : the future of housing, work, and family life / Dolores Hayden.

Edition:

Rev. and expanded.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, ©2002.

Description:

286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.
The Evolution of American Housing -- Housing and American Life -- From Ideal City to Dream House -- The City on a Hill -- Each Farmer on His Own Farm -- The American Woman's Home -- "The City of the Faithfulest Friends" -- Evolution of the Public Landscape -- The Homelike World -- "Good Homes Make Contented Workers" -- Selling Mrs. Consumer -- "I'll Buy That Dream" -- Awakening from the Dream -- Outgrowing Our Prescriptive Architecture -- Creating the Critique -- Architects and Urban Planners -- Environmentalists -- Feminists -- Renters and Owners -- Sticker Shock -- Rethinking Private Life -- Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie -- Three Models of Home -- The Haven Strategy -- The Industrial Strategy -- The Neighborhood Strategy -- Modifying Beecher's Haven Strategy -- Miniaturized Technology and Household Engineering -- Commercial Services -- Employer Benefits and State Services -- Swedish Parent Insurance -- Male Participation -- Modifying Bebel's Industrial Strategy -- The House for the New Way of Life -- Soviet Motherhood -- Housewives' Factories in Cuba and China -- Modifying Peirce's Neighborhood Strategy -- Service Houses, Collective Houses, and Cooperative Quadrangles -- Apartment Hotels -- Cash or Community? -- Family Allowances and Wages for Housework -- Trade-A-Maid -- Niche -- Complexity -- Economics: Getting and Spending -- Paid and Unpaid Work -- GNP as Measurement -- Economic Equity for Women -- Transportation: Women's Journeys versus Men's -- Housing Construction and Jobs -- Sweat Equity for Tenants.

Summary:

In a provocative critique of American housing patterns that perpetuate 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 that an "architecture of gender" creates for the two-earner family, the single-parent family, and single people. She traces three models of home in historical perspective to document innovative alternatives for reconstructing neighborhoods.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0393730948 (pbk.)
9780393730944 (pbk.)

Subject:

Hayden, Dolores
Housing United States History.
Architecture, Domestic United States History.
City planning United States History.
Feminism United States History.
Architecture domestique États-Unis Histoire.
Féminisme États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture, Domestic.
City planning.
Feminism.
Housing.
Wohnungsbau
Wohnen
Familie
Frau
Stadtplanung
Woningbouw.
Stadsplanning.
Feminisme.
Wonen.
Domestic architecture United States History.
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

Writings.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223276
Call No.: NA44.H414.A35 2002
Status: Available