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Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life Paperback – August 17, 2002

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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―the haven strategy in the United States, the industrial strategy in the former USSR, and the neighborhood strategy in European social democracies―to document alternative ways to reconstruct neighborhoods.

Updated and still utterly relevant today as the New Urbanist architects have taken up Hayden's critique of suburban space, this award-winning book is essential reading for architects, planners, public officials, and activists interested in women's social and economic equality.
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"Essential reading for architects, planners, and public officials...just as relevant today as it was nearly 20 years ago."
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Dolores Hayden, professor of architecture and American studies at Yale, writes about the politics of design.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; 2nd edition (August 17, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393730948
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393730944
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.2 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
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Dolores Hayden teaches popular courses on the American landscape at Yale University and has been the subject of features in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and on The Diane Rehm Show. A leading historian of American places and the politics of design, she has written six award-winning books that engage readers interested in how Americans have shaped their landscapes, towns, and buildings. Redesigning the American Dream received an American Library Association Notable Book Award for nonfiction.

Hayden is also a widely published poet. Her newest poetry collection is Nymph, Dun, and Spinner, published in November 2010.

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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2016
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    A nice reflection of our society!!!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars thanks
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    Thank you so much!!
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  • Michael Brown
    5.0 out of 5 stars American urbanism
    Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2010
    This is a fantastic book. Her historical research and insight are excellent. It is a bit dated, given that the text is from 1984 and the bulk of the sources were from the 1970's and previous, but that is the benefit of good scholarship, a text can remain relevant even with the passage of time. I actually think the format of the book and the ideas in the book are superior and better developed than in her more recent book "Building Suburbia", which at times feels like a conglomeration of economic data for a statistics conference. Both books, though, are wonderful. I highly suggest this book to get an excellent historical view of housing and urbanism.
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  • Victoria Ballard Bell
    5.0 out of 5 stars redesigning the american dream
    Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2004
    This is the best book about architecture that I ever read. Although I am not a feminist, it revealed to me the relationship between a building and the society that produced it -- a revelation that seven years at architecture schools (Yale and Princeton) did not provide. Any designer who want to design for another person needs to understand the hidden cultural codes that influence their creation of a built environment. Reading this book was the best way for me to understand what impact social biases can have in design.
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  • Kirsten
    2.0 out of 5 stars Lots and lots of ideas
    Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2006
    I re-read some of the chapters of this book, hoping to be able let her argument convince me that the way our homes are currently designed and geographically situated are founded on a sexist world view, creating significant detriment to society. I am not certain she was much help though. This is a pretty serious flaw since I am sympathetic to her thesis. Her arguments in support of her thesis are disjointed and use out of date information.

    One interesting feature of the book is that, where other authors would at most provide a couple alternatives or one encompassing school of thought as a solution, she briefly traces scores of possible alternatives. Most are only briefly mentioned, enough maybe to urge the reader to search out more information elsewhere.
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  • Donovan J. Weber
    1.0 out of 5 stars Presents a problem, offers no solution.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2008
    This book touches on a recognized problem, but is just a bunch of complaining and finger pointing without offering up real solutions. instead of pleading with men to change or architects to change, or city planner to change. Why not as the women to change? Marry a man that helps out with the kids and house, have too much to do? Don't have kids. Don't like the way cities / houses are designed? Design them differently. Want to change gender rolls? Raise your son in a way that will effect a change. Of course women are discriminated against, not the first or last group to have this problem, a group never got pulled out of it by someone else, the only way to do it is by yourself. This book should have been 50 pages long.
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  • Rosie Cox
    5.0 out of 5 stars A classic on gender, the city and the family
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2013
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    This is a beautifully written, well-researched book that explores the relationship between gender roles, housing forms and urban development, showing how the public/private divide was manufactured and maintained. A must-read for geographers, planners, urban designers and policy makers.
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