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"Renee Y. Chow has made comparative studies of neighborhoods in Cambridge, Charleston, San Francisco, Levittown, and Radburn and housing by Rudolf Schindler and Irving Gill, as well as other residential settings. Her argument for a fabric of dwelling is founded not on generalizations about how people live, but on documented observations of the particular ways in which people organize their daily lives. This ground-breaking book demonstrates how one...
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While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract houses of America's postwar suburbs represent the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing....
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"The American dream of a single-family home on its own lot remains strong, but a different dream of living and prospering in a major city is beginning to take hold. After decades of abandonment by the middle class, a detectable wave of people is moving into urban downtown areas. The Intown Living phenomenon is generally powered by people under the age of 40 who are seeking more stimulation than that of a typical subdivision lifestyle. This book encourages...
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