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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayden, Dolores.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing--United States--History.

Housing.

Architecture, Domestic--United States--History.

Architecture, Domestic.

City planning--United States--History.

City planning.

Feminism.

History.

United States.

Feminism--United States--History.

Physical Description:

286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Revised and expanded.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2002]

Contents:

Part I. The Evolution of American Housing 17

1. Housing and American Life 19

2. From Ideal City to Dream House 33

The City on a Hill 34

Each Farmer on His Own Farm 35

The American Woman's Home 36

"The City of the Faithfulest Friends" 40

Evolution of the Public Landscape 42

The Homelike World 44

"Good Homes Make Contented Workers" 48

Selling Mrs. Consumer 50

"I'll Buy That Dream" 52

3. Awakening from the Dream 57

Outgrowing Our Prescriptive Architecture 58

Creating the Critique 60

Architects and Urban Planners 61

Environmentalists 63

Feminists 68

Renters and Owners 73

Sticker Shock 75

Part II. Rethinking Private Life 79

4. Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie 81

Three Models of Home 85

The Haven Strategy 87

The Industrial Strategy 88

The Neighborhood Strategy 91

Modifying Beecher's Haven Strategy 95

Miniaturized Technology and Household Engineering 95

Commercial Services 97

Employer Benefits and State Services 99

Swedish Parent Insurance 100

Male Participation 101

Modifying Bebel's Industrial Strategy 103

The House for the New Way of Life 103

Soviet Motherhood 104

Housewives' Factories in Cuba and China 105

Modifying Peirce's Neighborhood Strategy 108

Service Houses, Collective Houses, and Cooperative Quadrangles 110

Apartment Hotels 114

Cash or Community? 114

Family Allowances and Wages for Housework 115

Trade-A-Maid 117

Niche 117

Complexity 118

5. Economics: Getting and Spending 121

Paid and Unpaid Work 122

GNP as Measurement 125

Economic Equity for Women 127

Transportation: Women's Journeys versus Men's 128

Housing Construction and Jobs 131

Sweat Equity for Tenants 132

Jobs on Site in Housing for Single Parents 134

The Women's Development Corporation 137

Counting with Women in Mind 138

6. Architecture: Roof, Fire, and Center 141

Three Models of Home Translated into Built Form 143

The Haven Strategy: The Single-Family House as Primitive Sacred Hut 145

Eclectic Styles 147

Electrification 148

Manufactured Housing 152

High-Priced, High-Tech, and High-Culture Huts 153

Telecommuting from the Haven 155

The Industrial Strategy: Mass Housing as Machine 156

Panopticons, Parallellograms, and Phalanxes 157

Social Housing 157

Support Structures 162

Social Engineering 164

Dynamite 167

The Neighborhood Strategy: The Cloister and the Village 170

The Academical Village 171

Quadrangles in the Garden Cities 172

Courtyards and Greens 174

Cohousing 177

Transitional Housing 181

New Densities for the Twenty-first Century 182

Campaigns for Affordable Housing 185

The Charter of the New Urbanism 185

European Charter for Women in the City 187

Construction or Reconstruction? 188

Part III. Rethinking Public Life 191

7. Reconstructing Domestic Space 193

The Builders' Approach

Greenfield Construction 195

Alternative Approaches of Infill and Reconstruction 197

Accessory Apartments in Single-Family Neighborhoods 199

The Constituency for Accessory Apartments 201

Reorganizing the Dream Houses 204

Relandscaping the Dream Neighborhoods 206

Homeownership in Limited-Equity Cooperatives 211

Public Housing: Making It More Like Home 213

Housing on Congregate Models for the Elderly, Singles, and Families 216

An Inn for the Elderly in New England 216

Congregate Housing Designed for Privacy and Community 217

Rehabilitation for Singles and Small Households 220

Implementing Change in the Built Environment: Taking the Long View 222

8. Domesticating Urban Space 225

The Freedom of the City for Women 227

Public Space for Parents 230

Greenlights and Safehouses 231

Rape Prevention, Public Transportation, and Women's Safety 232

Advertisements, Pronography, and Public Space 233

9. Beyond the Architecture of Gender 239

Reuniting Home and Work, Suburb and City 240

Urbanism: Making Economic, Social, and Architectural Ideas Work Together 242

The City of Women's Equality 242.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.

ISBN:

0393730948

OCLC:

49559018