Remaking the American dream : : the informal and formal transformation of single-family housing cities / / Vinit Mukhija.
"A critical examination of how single-family housing, the building block of US cities, is changing and its transformative potential for American urbanism"--
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [2022] |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Urban and Industrial Environments
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- I: Single-Family Housing Cities-- 1. The Changing Norms and Regulations of Single-Family Housing-- 2. The Ideology of Single-Family Living-- II: Informal Second Units in Los Angeles-- 3. City of Dreams: Single-Family Housing and Second Units in Los Angeles-- 4. The Everyday Prevalence of Informal Second Units-- III: Formal Second Units and Institutional Changes in Single-Family Housing-- 5. Enforcement and Formalization of Unpermitted Second Units in Los Angeles-- 6. The Formalization of Second Units: The Role of Local Governments-- IV: The New American Dream-- 7. Remaking the Suburban City.