| Summary |
Every American city has its own housing style: buildings that have been home to generations of families, symbols of regional identity and pride. Max Podemski, an urban planner for the city of Los Angeles and a lifelong architecture buff, walks the reader through the history of these dwellings, and offers a blueprint for how these time-tested models can help us build the new homes the US desperately needs. He shows how houses have evolved over the centuries according to the geography, climate, population, immigrant communities, and culture of each city, and addresses the structural inequalities that have prevented these buildings from serving the full range of their communities. Podemski asks how we can look to the past to build homes, neighborhoods, and cities of the future. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-246) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The house on Morrison -- Philadelphia row house : a paradise of small houses -- New York City tenement : the lowest depth -- New Orleans shotgun : a talking place -- Chicago workers cottage : the pine jungles -- Portland bungalow : the progressive era city -- Boston triple-decker : the zone of emergence -- Los Angeles dingbat : the dumb box -- Vancouver point tower : cult of the view -- Houston townhouse : the house and the town -- Conclusion: The tiny tower. |
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Small houses -- United States -- History.
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Housing -- United States -- History.
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Architecture, Domestic -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9780807007785 (hardcover) |
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0807007781 (hardcover) |
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