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 perspective‰ۥthe haven strategy in the United States the industrial strategy in the former USSR and the neighborhood strategy in European social democracies‰ۥto document alternative ways to reconstruct neighborhoods.
Paperback: 288 pages

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 2 edition (August 17 2002)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0393730948

ISBN-13: 978-0393730944

Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1 pounds