Redesigning the American Dream - Gender, Housing & Family Life Rev : The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life

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