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Cargando... Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Lifepor Dolores Hayden
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. https://archidose.blogspot.com/2007/11/book-review-two-books-on-suburbs.html This was an interesting book to have read. I enjoyed how she brought together the various anecdotes and statistics throughout the 20th century. I also enjoyed all of the building and neighborhood layouts. However, I felt that this book expected to be preaching to the choir. Her main thesis was that smaller village-like mixed-use communities, with production, consumption, and habitation areas close together, would allow women more freedom in their lives. Although it traced patterns of the "industrial," "haven," and "neighborhood" housing strategies, I did not feel that it made a nod towards arguing that these cover all of the relevant territory (I'm not quite convinced on this), that they are that closely linked to gender/family structure stereotypes (this I happen to buy), and that they are not as strongly related to class and race/nationality considerations (this I doubt). Neither did she give more than short-term anecdotal evidence of the effectiveness of neighborhood housing; it would have been good to provide some triangulation. I realize that not many experimental communities of this type have survived long-term (due to political pressures), but it would be wise to acknowledge that these communities may be successful due to self-selection, the short terms of many of the systems, the excitement surrounding new ventures, etc., and shore up the potential of the strategies with other supporting theories, models, and findings. For example, the fact that people living in mixed-use neighborhoods tend to be more healthy due to walking suggests that people will take advantage of these services and have the potential to be involved in a community. In this way she tends to come across as writing too much for a civic planning audience, one that already has experiences to revisit in light of her framework, rather than for laypeople, who have much thinner experience. Her writing style, on the other hand, is clear and unambiguous to this layperson. Important and recommended, but supplementation would be good. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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