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

by Hayden, Dolores

• ISBN13: 9780393730944
• ISBN10: 0393730948
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

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