Main entry:

Archer, John, 1947-

Title & Author:

Architecture and suburbia : from English villa to American dream house, 1690--2000 / John Archer.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.

Description:

xx, 470 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-442) and index.
Self, house, and suburb -- Built spaces and identity -- I: Eighteenth-century England: the genesis of the Bourgeois dwelling -- Locating the self in space -- Villa suburbana, terra suburbana -- The apparatus of selfhood -- II: Nineteenth-century America: republican homes in Arcadian suburbs -- Republican pastoral: toward a bourgeois Arcadia -- Suburbanizing the self -- III: Twentieth-century America: the dream house ideal and the suburban landscape -- Nationalizing the dream -- Analyzing the dream -- Reframing suburbia -- Coda: looking ahead.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Argues that the ideal suburban house is rooted in notions of privacy, property, and selfhood that are the foundation of identity in America.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780816643042 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816643040 (hc ; alk. paper)
(hc ; alk. paper)
9780816643040
9780816643035 (alk. paper)
0816643032 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Suburban homes United States.
Suburban homes England.
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture, Domestic England.
Architecture and society United States.
Architecture and society England.
Maisons de banlieue Angleterre.
Maisons de banlieue États-Unis.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture domestique Angleterre.
Architecture et société États-Unis.
Architecture et société Angleterre.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Domestic.
Suburban homes.
Architektur
Haus
Vorstadt
Wohnungsbau
Suburban homes Great Britain.
Architecture, Domestic Great Britain.
Architecture and society Great Britain.
Architecture domestique.
Banlieue.
Bungalow.
Maison.
17e siècle.
18e siècle.
19e siècle.
20e siècle.
England.
United States.
Großbritannien
USA
Angleterre.
États-Unis.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234477
Call No.: NA7571.A58 2005
Status: Available