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

by Dolores Hayden

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393017796
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 1984
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.0"

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Great Introduction

One of my favorite book, very thought provoking introduction to the intersection of gender space and power.

redesigning the american dream

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.