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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647208103321

Autore

Mukhija Vinit <1967->

Titolo

Remaking the American dream : the informal and formal transformation of single-family housing cities / / Vinit Mukhija

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]

ISBN

0-262-37240-1

0-262-37241-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 pages)

Collana

Urban and industrial environments

Disciplina

307.760973

Soggetti

Urbanization - United States

Housing, Single family - United States

American Dream

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"A critical examination of how single-family housing, the building block of US cities, is changing and its transformative potential for American urbanism"--