About Building The Dream For Gwendolyn Wright, the houses of America are the diaries of the American people. They create a fascinating chronicle of the way we have lived, and a reflection of every political, economic, or social issue we have been concerned with. Why did plantation owners build uniform cabins for their slaves?

Download friends again trapped and unwrapped rar free full. Why were all the walls in nineteenth-century tenements painted white? Why did the parlor suddenly disappear from middle-class houses at the turn of the century? How did the federal highway system change the way millions of Americans raised their families? Building the Dream introduces the parade of people, policies, and ideologies that have shaped the course of our daily lives by shaping the rooms we have grown up in. In the row houses of colonial Philadelphia, the luxury apartments of New York City, the prefab houses of Levittown, and the public-housing towers of Chicago, Wright discovers revealing clues to our past and a new way of looking at such contemporary issues as integration, sustainable energy, the needs of the elderly, and how we define “family.”. Table Of Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS FOR SOCIAL ORDER 1 1. The Puritan Way of Life 3 PART TWO: STRUCTURES OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM 19 2.

Row Upon Row in the Commercial City 24 3. The “Big House” and the Slave Quarters 41 4. Housing Factory Workers 58 5. Independence and the Rural Cottage 73 PART THREE: ACCOMMODATIONS FOR AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY 91 6. Victorian Suburbs and the Cult of Domesticity 96 7.

Americanization and Ethnicity in Urban Tenements 114 8. The Advantages of Apartment Life 135 PART FOUR: DOMESTICATION OF MODERN LIVING 153 9. The Progressive Housewife and the Bungalow 158 10.

Feb 17, 2003 - Wright, Gwendolyn. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America. Gwendolyn Wright, “Populist Visions” In Moralism and the Model Home (~30 pp.) Gwendolyn Wright, “The. Free with PENNCard. A Social History of Housing in America Gwendolyn Wright. Ways of confronting problems also tend to be repeated. The sense of sudden crises, unrelated to past.

Welfare Capitalism and the Company Town 177 11. Planned Residential Communities 193 PART FIVE: GOVERNMENT STANDARDS FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES 215 12. Public Housing for the Worthy Poor 220 13. The New Suburban Expansion and the American Dream 240 14. Preserving Homes and Promoting Change 262 Notes 285 Further Reading 302 Index 319.

Gwendolyn Wright Alma mater, and, Awards Fellowship in the Humanities from the, 1979-80 Nina Sutton Weeks Fellowship from the, 1982-83 Elected a fellow in the in 1985 Fellowship from the Institute for the Humanities, 1991 Getty Fellowship from the, 1992-93, 2004-5 Architecture Foundation Fellowship, 2005-6 Fellowship, 2006 Scientific career Fields Institutions Gwendolyn Wright is an award-winning, author, and co-host of the series. She is a professor of at, also holding appointments in both its departments of. Besides 'History Detectives', Dr. Wright's specialties are and from after the to the present. She also writes about the exchange across national boundaries of architectural styles, influences, and techniques, particularly examining the and attributes of both.

Contents • • • • • Biography [ ] Gwendolyn Wright attended, and in 1969 received a in history and art history. She did her graduate work at the, and was awarded her in 1974 and her in Architecture in 1978. She published her first book in 1980. Wright was hired by Columbia University in 1983, two years later becoming the first female to gain tenure in its prestigious. She succeeded founder as director of the, serving in that capacity from 1988 to 1992. In 2002, she was hired by television producers to be part of what would ultimately become the new TV series '. Back then the working title for the show was “American Attic”, and the initial concept was to tell stories of history through a focus on houses, hence their interest in adding an experienced architectural historian like Wright.

The concept has evolved into solving historical puzzles that use a wide variety of tangible objects to show how historians piece together various kinds of knowledge—and conflicting evidence and diverse perspectives—about what happened, how and why. Controlador ethernet 1969 nodb 1083 driver. The show has become one of the most popular and successful programs on PBS. Wright has remained one of the five hosts in front of the camera from its initial broadcast season in 2003 to the present. In the show's publicity, she is held up as the team member most likely to suggest how to proceed when the rest are stymied.