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Dolores Hayden

Author of Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000

10+ Works 876 Members 15 Reviews

About the Author

Dolores Hayden is professor of architecture and urbanism and professor of American studies at Yale University

Includes the names: Dolores Hayden, Delores Hayden, Dolores Hayden Ph.D., Dolores Hayden Ph.D., Professor Dolores Hayden

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Works by Dolores Hayden

Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 (2003) 221 copies

A Field Guide to Sprawl (2004) 191 copies

The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (1995) 175 copies

The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods and Cities (1981) 127 copies

Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life (1984) 96 copies

Seven American Utopias: Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975 (1976) 57 copies

American Yard (2004) 3 copies

Exuberance (2019) 3 copies

A New American House : Architectural Design Competition 1984 : catalogue of winning and select designs (1984) 2 copies

Nymph, Dun, and Spinner (2010) 1 copy

Associated Works

Women's America: Refocusing the Past (1982) — Contributor, some editions — 333 copies

The Best American Poetry 2009 (2009) — Contributor — 133 copies

Readings in Planning Theory (1996) — Contributor, some editions — 85 copies

Westchester: The American Suburb (2006) — Contributor — 15 copies

Tagged

19th century (7) 20th century (6) America (8) architecture (61) cities (15) city planning (6) culture (6) design (8) domesticity (5) feminism (13) geography (5) history (37) housing (13) land use (8) landscape (11) Los Angeles (6) MIT OCW (5) new urbanism (6) non-fiction (39) photography (6) planning (17) public history (14) read (7) socialism (7) sociology (10) sprawl (15) suburban (8) suburbia (8) suburbs (15) to-read (9) urban (19) urban design (10) urban history (10) urban planning (38) urban studies (16) urbanism (13) urbanization (9) USA (16) utopia (11) women (9)

Common Knowledge

Birthdate: c. 1950
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Education: Mount Holyoke College (BA, Architecture)
University of Cambridge
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Occupations: professor
architect
author
Organizations: Yale University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards and honors: American Library Association Notable Book Award
National Endowment for the Arts Award for Excellence in Design Research

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Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth,… by Dolores Hayden

https://archidose.blogspot.com/2009/06/book-review-two-books-on-suburbia.html

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archidose | 1 other review | Dec 17, 2023 |

Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of… by Dolores Hayden Ph.D.

https://archidose.blogspot.com/2007/11/book-review-two-books-on-suburbs.html

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archidose | 2 other reviews | Dec 16, 2023 |

A field guide to sprawl by Dolores Hayden

this was cute. i read it in a few hours! and now i know what a duck is.

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mirnanda | 7 other reviews | Dec 27, 2019 |

Redesigning the American dream; by Dolores Hayden

270 p.

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BmoreMetroCouncil | 2 other reviews | Feb 9, 2017 |

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Notable Books List

Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life (1984)

The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (Winner – Sociology & Anthropology – 1995)

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Statistics

Works: 10
Also by: 4
Members: 876
Popularity: #29,233
Rating: ½ 3.7

Reviews: 15
ISBNs: 23
Languages: 2

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