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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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• Preface to the 2002 Edition
• Acknowledgments
• Part I. The Evolution of American Housing(p. 17)
• 1. Housing and American Life(p. 19)
• 2. From Ideal City to Dream House(p. 33)
• The City on a Hill(p. 34)
• Each Farmer on His Own Farm(p. 35)
• The American Woman's Home(p. 36)
• "The City of the Faithfulest Friends"(p. 40)
• Evolution of the Public Landscape(p. 42)
• The Homelike World(p. 44)
• "Good Homes Make Contented Workers"(p. 48)
• Selling Mrs. Consumer(p. 50)
• "I'll Buy That Dream"(p. 52)
• 3. Awakening from the Dream(p. 57)
• Outgrowing Our Prescriptive Architecture(p. 58)
• Creating the Critique(p. 60)
• Architects and Urban Planners(p. 61)
• Environmentalists(p. 63)
• Feminists(p. 68)
• Renters and Owners(p. 73)
• Sticker Shock(p. 75)
• Part II. Rethinking Private Life(p. 79)
• 4. Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie(p. 81)
• Three Models of Home(p. 85)
• The Haven Strategy(p. 87)
• The Industrial Strategy(p. 88)
• The Neighborhood Strategy(p. 91)
• Modifying Beecher's Haven Strategy(p. 95)
• Miniaturized Technology and Household Engineering(p. 95)
• Commercial Services(p. 97)
• Employer Benefits and State Services(p. 99)
• Swedish Parent Insurance(p. 100)
• Male Participation(p. 101)
• Modifying Bebel's Industrial Strategy(p. 103)
• The House for the New Way of Life(p. 103)
• Soviet Motherhood(p. 104)
• Housewives' Factories in Cuba and China(p. 105)
• Modifying Peirce's Neighborhood Strategy(p. 108)
• Service Houses, Collective Houses, and Cooperative Quadrangles(p. 110)
• Apartment Hotels(p. 114)
• Cash or Community?(p. 114)
• Family Allowances and Wages for Housework(p. 115)
• Trade-A-Maid(p. 117)
• Niche(p. 117)
• Complexity(p. 118)
• 5. Economics: Getting and Spending(p. 121)
• Paid and Unpaid Work(p. 122)
• GNP as Measurement(p. 125)
• Economic Equity for Women(p. 127)
• Transportation: Women's Journeys versus Men's(p. 128)
• Housing Construction and Jobs(p. 131)
• Sweat Equity for Tenants(p. 132)
• Jobs on Site in Housing for Single Parents(p. 134)
• The Women's Development Corporation(p. 137)
• Counting with Women in Mind(p. 138)
• 6. Architecture: Roof, Fire, and Center(p. 141)
• Three Models of Home Translated into Built Form(p. 143)
• The Haven Strategy: The Single-Family House as Primitive Sacred Hut(p. 145)
• Eclectic Styles(p. 147)
• Electrification(p. 148)
• Manufactured Housing(p. 152)
• High-Priced, High-Tech, and High-Culture Huts(p. 153)
• Telecommuting from the Haven(p. 155)
• The Industrial Strategy: Mass Housing as Machine(p. 156)
• Panopticons, Parallellograms, and Phalanxes(p. 157)
• Social Housing(p. 157)
• Support Structures(p. 162)
• Social Engineering(p. 164)
• Dynamite(p. 167)
• The Neighborhood Strategy: The Cloister and the Village(p. 170)
• The Academical Village(p. 171)
• Quadrangles in the Garden Cities(p. 172)
• Courtyards and Greens(p. 174)
• Cohousing(p. 177)
• Transitional Housing(p. 181)
• New Densities for the Twenty-first Century(p. 182)
• Campaigns for Affordable Housing(p. 185)
• The Charter of the New Urbanism(p. 185)
• European Charter for Women in the City(p. 187)
• Construction or Reconstruction?(p. 188)
• Part III. Rethinking Public Life(p. 191)
• 7. Reconstructing Domestic Space(p. 193)
• The Builders' Approach--Greenfield Construction(p. 195)
• Alternative Approaches of Infill and Reconstruction(p. 197)
• Accessory Apartments in Single-Family Neighborhoods(p. 199)
• The Constituency for Accessory Apartments(p. 201)
• Reorganizing the Dream Houses(p. 204)
• Relandscaping the Dream Neighborhoods(p. 206)
• Homeownership in Limited-Equity Cooperatives(p. 211)
• Public Housing: Making It More Like Home(p. 213)
• Housing on Congregate Models for the Elderly, Singles, and Families(p. 216)
• An Inn for the Elderly in New England(p. 216)
• Congregate Housing Designed for Privacy and Community(p. 217)
• Rehabilitation for Singles and Small Households(p. 220)
• Implementing Change in the Built Environment: Taking the Long View(p. 222)
• 8. Domesticating Urban Space(p. 225)
• The Freedom of the City for Women(p. 227)
• Public Space for Parents(p. 230)
• Greenlights and Safehouses(p. 231)
• Rape Prevention, Public Transportation, and Women's Safety(p. 232)
• Advertisements, Pronography, and Public Space(p. 233)
• 9. Beyond the Architecture of Gender(p. 239)
• Reuniting Home and Work, Suburb and City(p. 240)
• Urbanism: Making Economic, Social, and Architectural Ideas Work Together(p. 242)
• The City of Women's Equality(p. 242)
• Notes(p. 247)
• Selected Bibliography(p. 269)
• Index(p. 279)

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