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Titre:
A field guide to sprawl

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This concise book defines the vocabulary of sprawl from alligator to zoomburb, illustrating fifty-one colorful terms invented by real estate developers and designers to characterize contemporary building patterns. Sixty-nine aerial photographs, each paired with a definition, convey the impact of development and provide verbal and visual vocabulary needed by professionals, public officials, and citizens to critique uncontrolled growth in the American landscape.

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La grande révolution domestique : Une histoire de l'architecture féministe

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Ce livre dresse une histoire de l’architecture féministe en revenant sur les théories de plusieurs penseuses étasuniennes qui postulaient, dès le XIXe siècle, que la prise en charge intégrale du travail domestique par les femmes constituait une des causes fondamentales des inégalités de genre. La Grande Révolution domestique donne à voir les stratégies ayant contribué à remettre en question notre manière de concevoir les logements et les villes modernes afin d’accompagner les femmes vers une plus grande indépendance économique et permettre ainsi l’égalité sociale.

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Redesigning the American dream : gender, housing, and family life, revised and expanded

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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 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.

Titre:
A field guide to sprawl

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Duck, ruburb, tower farm, big box, and pig-in-a-python are among dozens of zany terms invented to characterize land use practices and the physical elements of sprawl. This book provides the verbal and visual vocabulary needed by professionals, public officials, and citizens to critique uncontrolled growth in the American landscape.