| Description |
xx, 470 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue : self, house, and suburb -- Introduction : built spaces and identity -- Pt. I. Eighteenth-century England : the genesis of the bourgeois dwelling -- 1. Locating the self in space -- 2. Villa suburbana, Terra suburbana -- 3. The apparatus of selfhood -- Pt. II. Nineteenth-century America : republican homes in arcadian suburbs -- 4. Republican pastoral : toward a bourgeois arcadia -- 5. Suburbanizing the self -- Pt. III. Twentieth-century America : the dream house ideal and the suburban landscape -- 6. Nationalizing the dream -- 7. Analyzing the dream -- Conclusion : reframing suburbia -- Coda : looking ahead |
| Summary |
"Spanning four centuries, Architecture and Suburbia explores phenomena ranging from household furnishings and routines to the proliferation of the dream house in parallel with Cold War politics. Beginning with John Locke, whose Enlightenment philosophy imagined individuals capable of self-fulfillment, Archer examines the eighteenth-century British bourgeois villa and the earliest London suburbs. He recounts how early American homeowners used houses to establish social status and how twentieth-century Americans continued to flock to single-family houses in the suburbs, encouraged by patriotism, fueled by consumerism, and resisting disdain by disaffected youths, designers, and intellectuals. Finally, he recognizes "hybridized" or increasingly diverse American suburbs as the dynamic basis for a strengthened social fabric."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture, Domestic -- England.
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Architecture and society -- England.
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Architecture and society -- United States.
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Architecture, Domestic -- United States.
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Suburban homes -- England.
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Suburban homes -- England -- History.
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Suburban homes -- United States -- History.
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Suburban homes -- United States.
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| LC no. |
2004025706 |
| ISBN |
0816643032 (alk. paper) |
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