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Autore |
Mukhija Vinit <1967-> |
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Titolo |
Remaking the American dream : the informal and formal transformation of single-family housing cities / / Vinit Mukhija |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022] |
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0-262-37240-1 |
0-262-37241-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 pages) |
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Collana |
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Urban and industrial environments |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Urbanization - United States |
Housing, Single family - United States |
American Dream |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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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