Redesigning the American Dream The Future of

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.

Dolores Hayden, professor of architecture and American studies at Yale University

Preface to the 2002 Edition

Acknowledgments

Part I. The Evolution of American Housing

17

(62)

Housing and American Life

19

(14)

From Ideal City to Dream House

33

(24)

The City on a Hill

34

(1)

Each Farmer on His Own Farm

35

(1)

The American Woman's Home

36

(4)

``The City of the Faithfulest Friends''

40

(2)

Evolution of the Public Landscape

42

(2)

The Homelike World

44

(4)

``Good Homes Make Contented Workers''

48

(2)

Selling Mrs. Consumer

50

(2)

``I'll Buy That Dream''

52

(5)

Awakening from the Dream

57

(22)

Outgrowing Our Prescriptive Architecture

58

(2)

Creating the Critique

60

(13)

Architects and Urban Planners

61

(2)

Environmentalists

63

(5)

Feminists

68

(5)

Renters and Owners

73

(2)

Sticker Shock

75

(4)

PART II. Rethinking Private Life

79

(112)

Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie

81

(40)

Three Models of Home

85

(10)

The Haven Strategy

87

(1)

The Industrial Strategy

88

(3)

The Neighborhood Strategy

91

(4)

Modifying Beechcer's Haven Strategy

95

(8)

Miniaturized Technology and Household Engineering

95

(2)

Commercial Services

97

(2)

Employer Benefits and State Services

99

(1)

Swedish Parent Insurance

100

(1)

Male Participation

101

(2)

Modifying Bebel's Industrial Strategy

103

(5)

The House for the New way of life

103

(1)

Soviet Motherhood

104

(1)

Housewives, Factories in Cuba and China

105

(3)

Modifying Peirce's Neighborhood Strategy

108

(10)

Service Houses, Collective Houses, and Cooperative Quadrangles

110

(4)

Apartment Hotels

114

(1)

Cash or Community?

114

(1)

Family Allowances and Wages for Housework

115

(2)

Trade-A-Maid

117

(1)

NICHE

117

(1)

Complexity

118

(3)

Economics: Getting and Spending

121

(20)

Paid and Unpaid Work

122

(3)

GNP as Measurement

125

(2)

Economic Equity for Women

127

(11)

Transportation: Women's Journeys versus Men's

128

(3)

Housing Construction and Jobs

131

(1)

Sweat Equity for Tenants

132

(2)

Jobs on Site in Housing for Single Parents

134

(3)

The Women's Development Corporation

137

(1)

Counting with Women in Mind

138

(3)

Architecture: Roof, Fire, and Center

141

(50)

Three Models of Home Translated into Built Form

143

(2)

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

145

(11)

Eclectic Styles

147

(1)

Electrification

148

(4)

Manufactured Housing

152

(1)

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

153

(2)

Telecommuting from the Haven

155

(1)

The Industrial Strategy: Mass Housing as Machine

156

(14)

Panopticons, Parallellograms, and Phalanxes

157

(1)

Social Housing

157

(5)

Support Structures

162

(2)

Social Engineering

164

(3)

Dynamite

167

(3)

The Neighborhood Strategy: The Cloister and the Village

170

(12)

The Academical Village

171

(1)

Quadrangles in the Garden Cities

172

(2)

Courtyards and Greens

174

(3)

Cohousing

177

(4)

Transitional Housing

181

(1)

New Densities for the Twenty-first Century

182

(6)

Campaigns for Affordable Housing

185

(1)

The Charter of the New Urbanism

185

(2)

European Charter for Women in the City

187

(1)

Construction or Reconstruction?

188

(3)

PART III. Rethinking Public Life

191

(56)

Reconstructing Domestic Space

193

(32)

The Builders' Approach-Greenfield Construction

195

(2)

Alternative Approaches of Infill and Reconstruction

197

(25)

Accessory Apartments in Single-Family Neighborhoods

199

(2)

The Constituency for Accessory Apartments

201

(3)

Reorganizing the Dream Houses

204

(2)

Relandscaping the Dream Neighborhoods

206

(5)

Homeownership in Limited-Equity Cooperatives

211

(2)

Public Housing: Making It More Like Home

213

(3)

Housing on Congregate Models for the Elderly Singles, and Families

216

(1)

An Inn for the Elderly in New England

216

(1)

Congregate Housing Designed for Privacy and Community

217

(3)

Rehabilitation for Singles and Small Households

220

(2)

Implementing Change in the Built Environment: Taking the Long View

222

(3)

Domesticating Urban Space

225

(14)

The Freedom of the City for Women

227

(3)

Public Space for Parents

230

(1)

Greenlights and Safehouses

231

(1)

Rape Prevention, Public Transportation, and Women's Safety

232

(1)

Advertisements, Pornography and Public Space

233

(6)

Beyond the Architecture of Gender

239

(8)

Reuniting Home and Work, Suburb and City

240

(2)

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

242

(1)

The City of Women's Equality

242

(5)

Notes

247

(22)

Selected Bibliography

269

(10)

Index

279

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

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