This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare ex
Explores the phenomenon of the mass movement of people away from town and city centres to live in new estates and towns built since World War II. Using sociolog
A fourteen-year-old trying to find her way in the world, Doreen is as much an outcast at school as she is at home. Marginalized by her peers, misunderstood by h
"The author presents a versatile selection of more than thirty intriguing examples of conversion, in the United States, England, and France. In more than two hu
The first survey of the classic twentieth-century houses that defined American Midwestern modernism. Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century a