Redesigning the American Dream
Redesigning the American Dream
"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. Redesigning the American Dream, published by W.W. Norton in 1984, came out in a revised and expanded edition in 2002. It has been translated and is available in Japanese and Spanish. The Grand Domestic Revolution has been translated, and is available in Japanese, Spanish, and French. There are shorter articles in Italian and German."