Vinit Mukhija

Remaking the American Dream

The Informal and Formal Transformation of Single-Family Housing Cities

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Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Urban and Industrial Environments
• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 228mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780262544764
• ISBN-10: 0262544768
• Artikelnr.: 64644424

Autorenporträt

Vinit Mukhija is a professor and former chair of Urban Planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is coeditor of The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor and Just Urban Design: The Struggle for the Public City, both from the MIT Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
I Single-Family Housing Cities
1 The Changing Norms and Regulations of Single-Family Housing 3
2 The Ideology of Single-Family Living 37
II Informal Second Units in Los Angeles
3 City of Dreams: Single-Family Housing and Second Units in Los Angeles 61
4 The Everyday Prevalence of Informal Second Units 93
III Formal Second Units and Institutional Changes in Single-Family Housing
5 Enforcement and Formalization of Unpermitted Second Units in Los Angeles
141
6 The Formalization of Second Units: The Role of Local Governments 179
IV The New American Dream 
7 Remaking the Suburban City 235
Notes 257
References 277
Index 333